Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spent $800 at the Coop last year, so the .8 percent only means a miniscule difference of $6.40," said David C. Bear '92. "However, the principle of it is disturbing because they're supposed to be efficient, but this makes the Coop seem less efficient...
...common anti-Semitic sentiment is that a network of powerfully placed Jews conspires to control the world. At their worst, members of fraternities such as Sigma Alpha Mu seem to wish that such a network existed so they could take advantage...
Such conflicts crop up in some of the most basic rituals of working life. "If an American wants an answer, he'll pick up the phone," says Kai Lindholst, a managing partner of Egon Zehnder, an international consulting firm. "A European will write a memo. The phone call will seem overly aggressive and pushy to the European manager, but the American needs to convey a greater sense of urgency because competition in the U.S. is so tough...
...where those eloquently clumsy speckled gray-and-pink shapes looked back to, one need only consult passages in Velazquez like the extraordinary plumage of the headdress worn by Queen Mariana for his formal portrait of her in the Prado. Yet not one of his painter-admirers has made Velazquez seem "newer," or in any significant way changed the address of his work. Velazquez himself seems always new, fresh on his own terms, which record the act of scrutiny in the purest imaginable form and so have never dated. He is, to quote Lenin very much out of context, "as radical...
...first axioms American reporters learn is that a fender bender on Main Street is bigger news than a train wreck in Pakistan. Just as Tip O'Neill crystallized electoral wisdom in his dictum "All politics is local," many editors seem to have concluded that all journalism should be local too. Reportage from distant places tends to be limited to the melodramatic and gauged by personal relevance: either the it-could-have-been-me human-interest factor or the larger-implications factor of how, although the news consumer was untouched by a particular event, similar ones in the future might have...