Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What we as smoking employees are protesting is the insensitive way in which The Crimson portrayed us. It was not shown that these interviews were conducted singularly with two distinctly individual groups. The Crimson made it seem as if we were all together in one room and the reporter in one room and the reporter was asking one group what had happened at the meeting and then asking the other group why it didn't go to the meeting. Since this was not so, we are asking that The Crimson make it clear that these interviews were done separately...
...bulls of Wall Street seem to be betting that the Federal Reserve Board will not allow interest rates to rise sharply. Such a policy would endanger a vulnerable economy, which grew only 2.5% in 1986. Last week's employment report from the Labor Department offered evidence that the economy is still in the doldrums. Though the overall unemployment rate fell slightly, from 6.7% to 6.6%, the number of jobs actually declined in the important manufacturing and construction sectors...
Despite their varied interests, the winners seem to have one quality in common: a social conscience. That trait is perhaps best summed up by Louisa Smith, a student of public policy at Harvard-Radcliffe College. Before leaving for Washington with her fellow achievers to meet Vice President George Bush, who had expressed interest in chatting with this year's winners, Smith talked about her commitment to the inmates of the prisons and mental hospitals she has been visiting since high school. "I may never solve all the problems I have seen," said Smith, "but I cannot walk away from them...
...Augusto Pinochet Ugarte toppled elected Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens. His voice trembling, the Pope acknowledged the "sadness" of the place and urged his audience "not to remain indifferent in the face of injustice" but cautioned them to avoid being "seduced by violence and the thousands of reasons that seem to justify...
...this basically sound production, the most apparent flaw is with the character of Tracy. Some of this might be attributable to a slow start on opening night, for Halper did seem to improves as the play wore on. But Halper's performance consistently lacked vocal or facial life and expression. Because Tracy Lord is the central character of the play, this partially flawed performance casts a shadow over the entire production...