Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nuts and bolts of HRE's new performance space policies may not seem dramatic, but they bely an underlying confusion over priorities. Most of the changes force student groups to pay for HRE-provided services--such as piano moving, concessions and ushering--which the organizations performed on their own before...
...There seem to be three keys to Lun Feng's success. The first is its location on the Kai Kong River, which allows the factory to ship its goods by sea and not by the country's notoriously awful roads. Even in Guangdong, many of the paved highways are narrow, and virtually impassable when travelers stop to shop at roadside stands...
Moreover, Parker's Marlowe can seem like an anachronism in search of a time frame. He drinks rye, smokes Camels and charges only $100 a day plus expenses. But there are contemporary touches. Women wear tank tops and police uniforms, and pornography has gone public...
...well. They fear the Administration is passing up a historic opportunity to move beyond the superpower confrontation and risking the danger that if Gorbachev is not helped, he will fall and be replaced by a hard-liner. Senate majority leader George Mitchell charged last week that Bush and company seem "almost nostalgic about the cold war." To many, the Bush team seems stubbornly reluctant to move beyond what the President calls a "show me" attitude...
Anxiety and apprehension seem to pervade Moscow whenever Mikhail Gorbachev is out of town. But for much of August, with the Soviet President off on his annual vacation in the Crimea, the capital showed symptoms of panic. Conservative members of the Politburo were warning that the country could be slipping out of control. Government officials were speculating openly about the possibility of a coup. A rock group climbed the Soviet hit parade with a song whose refrain was "We are anticipating civil war." Arriving home, Gorbachev, looking tanned and vigorous after four weeks on the Black Sea shore, went straight...