Word: seem
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...instruments of power: almost all the officers of the well-equipped police force are Afrikaners, and the army is unquestionably the best on the continent. But facing the angry defiance of the black majority, backed by the economic and moral opposition of the outside world, the embattled Afrikaners seem at last to be losing their oft proclaimed determination to maintain apartheid at all costs. Botha's forces may win a majority of the white votes in next week's election, but history promises the eventual victory to the blacks...
...fashioned bank methods are losing that contest. Increasingly, a chorus of experts, including Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker, seem to agree that without changes in banking rules that go back half a century, more and more of those institutions will be pressed to the financial wall. Many, indeed, are already there. In general, banking profitability has been deteriorating for the past 15 years, and an estimated 25% of the country's 14,000 banks are losing money this year. U.S. banks, says Paul Baastad, an analyst at the San Francisco brokerage of S.G. Warburg & Co., are under "tremendous pressure...
...Henderson, year in and year out the Rotisserie League's Mr. Everything, comes up fourth. The bidding is fierce, quickly passing Rickey's previous salary of $53. Given the finite money pool of $3,120, the large number of top players in this year's draft would seem to make each one less valuable. But Rickey is immune to the iron laws of economics, and he boldly goes where no man has gone before: $60, then $65 and finally $69. The auctioneer intones his ritual "Going once, going twice . . ." Everyone looks at the Amaros...
...wistful feeling of dislocation from the things and relationships of routine life, and chronic elevator stomach, as if the Fall from Grace were a perpetual state of being. Updike's afflicted are invariably middle-aged, middle-class males who, with their wives, ex-wives, mistresses, natural and acquired children, seem to inhabit a blue version of the Lands' End catalog. Alcohol abuse, infidelity and a numbing lack of faith lie just beneath the bright madras and sturdy poplin...
...crossing of a sacrosanct dividing line and was cause for alarm. Patenting plants and microbes are one thing, said Veterinarian Michael Fox, scientific director of the Humane Society of the United States, because "they lack the capacity to suffer." By viewing animals as mere products, he continued, "we seem to be forgetting that these are sentient beings...