Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Palestinian. He refuses to consider negotiations with the Soviets or indirect dealings with the P.L.O. or Arab governments. And he is infuriated that Peres may be trying to exploit the issue in order to force him out of office before his term expires next year. Since Peres and Shamir seem equally angry and determined, prospects for compromise are not bright...
More than 100 members of the Reagan Administration have had ethical or legal charges leveled against them. That number is without precedent. While the Reagan Administration's missteps may not have been as flagrant as the Teapot Dome scandal or as pernicious as Watergate, they seem more general, more pervasive and somehow more ingrained than those of any previous Administration. During other presidencies, scandals such as Watergate seemed to multiply from a single cancer; the Reagan Administration, however, appears to have suffered a breakdown of the immune system, opening the way to all kinds of ethical and moral infections...
...some Reaganites, almost any action in pursuit of the President's vision was justified; for them, it was not a Government of laws, but of one man. Oliver North, for one, did not seem willing to let anything, even Congress, stand in the way of serving his Commander in Chief...
Among the mysteries of the AIDS epidemic is why certain people seem to be less susceptible than others. Why do the sex partners of some AIDS patients remain free of infection? Why are Africans more likely to contract the disease than American heterosexuals...
...recent months top Bacardi officers seem to have been conducting a purge of family members who oppose the privatization plan. Those let go include Bacardi Corp. Vice President Adolfo Comas Bacardi; Jorge Bacardi, vice president of the Bahamas operation; Toten Comas Bacardi, a quality-control manager in Europe; and Alberto Bacardi, president of a Canadian subsidiary...