Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many of the students say that things that seem negative at the time become part of the learning process. Vittimberga, for example, recalls a rainy day on his rafting trip when he questioned what he was doing. "When you're out there working in the rain for hours, you wonder why did I come here when I could be nice and warm in Cambridge," he says...
...extent they have been caught in a Catch-22. Their failure to win military victories and popular support in Nicaragua has resulted in fitful and inconsistent support from Congress. That has made it difficult for the contras to do more than irritate the Sandinistas. Now, just as the contras seem ready to galvanize their military efforts with a new supply of direct U.S. aid, they find themselves caught in the undertow of Iranscam, with their support in Washington again ebbing away...
...biggest problem CBS faces is the now widespread internal belief that the news organization's best days are behind it. "The people who are left seem more depressed than the ones who were laid off," says Bonnie Arnold, a Washington producer who was let go. Some big names have been working to rekindle confidence. 60 Minutes Executive Producer Don Hewitt and Correspondent Mike Wallace met with Tisch and urged him to spell out his plans more specifically, but indicated they were reassured that he still backs a strong news operation. Walter Cronkite, the former anchorman who now sits...
...will soon topple the Shah, rearrange the balances of power and terror in the Middle East and seriously frazzle two successive American presidencies. But in hindsight from 1987, when all of this is known, anyone who was in Iran then, even only in make-believe, can be made to seem interesting...
...know because I've been there. Though the tangle of coincidence may seem incredible, the truth of the matter is that I myself once went out with the late Mrs. Margeret de Larrain...