Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...People need to be called, you need to get on people's cases a little bit, but people seem to be very sympathetic to the pro-choice movement," James M. Kittelberg '90, another organizer for the group, said. "Once you call people andget them moving the results can be astounding...
...from the capital that is infinitely poorer than towns a thousand miles farther inland, I find little that is charming or especially exotic. Just a mostly drab and dusty country, a perfect backdrop for the tedious and too often unrewarding nature of daily life. Still, the people seem energetic, if fitful; a fifth of the world's population in a cage. Good, hardworking people who deserve better than the suffocating Communism that limits their enterprise...
...legitimate interest in the use of the property. After all, Harvard faces incipient crises in shortages of both faculty office space and storage space for library books. To the observer untrained in the art of bureaucratic thinking, these needs seem more pressing than the shortage of moderately priced hotel rooms in the area. Spence insists that the faculty's needs will be met somehow, but he made no definite provisions for them before proceeding with the hotel plan...
...country where problems are endemic, things seem to be spiraling out of control, and the possibility that Gorbachev's great experiment could collapse has gained currency. Rumors of coups or impending civil war have circulated so widely that Gorbachev felt obliged to denounce them in a TV speech early this month, accusing both left and right of spreading false alarms. The Communist Party Central Committee is scheduled to meet this week to discuss the nationalities crisis; Gorbachev reportedly will seek its backing to fire more of his critics from the Politburo...
...turns out, in Japan. As they have so often in the past, the Japanese have seized on an American invention and found practical uses for it. Suddenly the term fuzzy and products based on principles of fuzzy logic seem to be everywhere in Japan: in television documentaries, in corporate magazine ads and in novel electronic gadgets ranging from computer-controlled air conditioners to golf-swing analyzers. The concept of fuzziness has struck a cultural chord in a society whose religions and philosophies are attuned to ambiguity and contradiction. Says Noboru Wakami, a senior researcher at Matsushita: "It's like...