Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...black leaders fear far more serious consequences. Says Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Chief Minister of the KwaZulu homeland and a longtime critic of divestiture: "If the South African economy is destroyed along with apartheid, we will have to build on the quicksands of deepening poverty." For now, though, divestiture does not seem to have had much effect -- positive or negative -- on the national economy. Since buyers of American subsidiaries are producing roughly the same output of goods and services as their U.S. predecessors, South Africa's growth rate has been little changed...
...guards -- twice the previous number -- and many of them work undercover. France, once accused of lax attention toward the movements and activities of suspected terrorists, now requires all visitors to carry a visa. Cost: $15 for a three-year visa. The bureaucratic inconvenience of obtaining the document does not seem to be deterring tourists. The French consulate in Manhattan has been overwhelmed by a flood of some 2,000 applications a day and has opened a second office to handle the overflow. Jean-Marc Janaillac, director of the French tourist office in New York City, reports that 62% more Americans...
...deals to save money." Catering to the bargain hunters, the New York City-based Inter- Continental hotel chain plans to slash rates by up to 60% next week at 30 of its hotels in 23 European cities and guarantee the prices in dollars. While they are in Europe, Americans seem to be paying closer attention than usual to such expenses as food, entertainment and gifts, which can often add up to half the total cost of the trip. Says Carolyn Bartkus, 22, a Houston homemaker who was visiting London with her husband last week: "We adapt and eat in pubs...
...string was strung between surviving sticks of furniture, and they began to play tennis. "We played for ice cream," she says, "ice cream with hot raspberries. There was music too. It was fun." Graf is a lean, athletic man, 48, not much taller than his daughter, who can seem smaller than 5 ft. 8. in., sometimes quite delicate. A latecomer to tennis, he was a soccer player of local note, given to working so excessively hard that he routinely ripped his muscles and powdered his bones. Of all the world's Little League parents, tennis may produce the most virulent...
...publishing business. Earlier on the day of the grass-borne boats, he and his wife Debba, 35, and daughter Bronwen, 6, drove down to Charleston from Columbia, where the writer is what he calls a "schoolteacher" at the University of South Carolina. (Dickey has the knack of making modesty seem epic.) His destination was Chapter Two, a bookstore where he was scheduled to sign copies of Alnilam. It was not the impersonal ritual that authors usually endure. Dickey greeted customers and actively solicited their patronage. The result, according to Owner Susan Davis, was that nearly half of the 100 copies...