Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Secretary departed on an eight-day trip to six black African countries that are considered U.S. allies -- Senegal, Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, the Ivory Coast and Liberia -- but had no plans to meet with Tambo or visit South Africa during his journey. Said Shultz: "Right now there doesn't seem to be any way to take a fruitful initiative there...
...this bull market has never been driven by corporate profits. Instead, it has been fueled principally -- some would say only -- by the decline in U.S. interest rates. Every fall in rates makes bonds and other fixed-income investments seem less attractive to investors and thus increases the desirability of common stocks. In the past two years, for example, the return on 90-day Treasury bills, ordinarily a staple for conservative investors, has dropped from about...
...State of the Union message of 1967, when he arrived in the well of the House with a war going sour and a Congress that had just added 50 new Republicans. "I should like to say to the members of the opposition -- whose numbers, if I am not mistaken, seem to have increased somewhat -- that the genius of the American political system has always been best expressed through creative debate that offers choices and reasonable alternatives," said Johnson. "Throughout our history, great Republicans and Democrats have seemed to understand this. So let there be light and reason in our relations...
...intelligence. It hardly matters that the plot does not flow forward but rather screeches to a number of halts, that each new beginning is a refutation of what has gone before. The individual scenes inspire absolute belief; Roth's art is such that he can make events seem not only plausible but inescapable even while announcing over and over again that none of them occurred...
...unpracticed eye, Roth's ordinary routine might seem the epitome of boredom. His favorite place to write is a gray colonial 1790 farmhouse set on roughly 40 acres of land in Connecticut's Litchfield County. He bought the place in 1972, in part to get away from the demands and notoriety that had hounded him after Portnoy. He got plenty of solitude for his money, sometimes, he acknowledges, a bit too much: "Night up here can come down like a heavy thing." Before that happens, Roth has usually put in a reclusive day. By 9:30 each morning...