Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even the most driven birders seem to harbor a few doubts about the chasing game. "It's ridiculous -- it costs more money than booze and takes more time," says Thompson Marsh, a professor at the University of Denver College of Law. Marsh, 84, who began listing birds in 1918, still hunts with the pack and is ranked fifth on the North American list. If someone wants to start a Birdwatchers Anonymous, says Marsh, he is ready to join. "I experience recurring intervals of lucidity," he says. "When a chaffinch turned up in New Brunswick, I stayed right here...
Ford's fire sale may mollify safety activists, who have long accused automakers of charging too much for the passive restraint device. But many dealers, for their part, have said that customers simply do not seem interested in spending the extra money...
...that language, says Salkever, has fallen into disuse, leaving American society with no moral lingua franca. Agrees Jesuit Father Joseph O'Hare, president of Fordham University: "We've had a traditional set of standards that have been challenged and found wanting or no longer fashionable. Now there don't seem to be any moral landmarks...
...volunteer work with the elderly or with prisoners, or as tutors for children," Coles points out. He regards this as a hopeful sign of "decency, compassion and sensitivity to others, as well as to one's own needs." Some graduate students in professional schools, on the other hand, still seem preoccupied with their personal ambitions. In an effort to encourage moral inquiry, Coles taught a special ethics class at the business school this spring, using characters and incidents from novels and short stories to dramatize the need for broader values. During one class focused on F. Scott Fitzgerald...
...nation's reawakening concern with ethics puts a higher political premium than ever on personalities who can come across as trustworthy. Arizona Democrat Bruce Babbitt says he senses a "groping quality" among voters. "What people seem to be saying," adds Babbitt, "is 'This time around we want to have a direct feel for who the candidates are, how they make decisions, what their priorities are in their personal lives...