Word: seem
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When he returned form South Africa, Waldorf says he met with a conservative friend who reminded him of many of his former arguments against sanctions and disinvestment. Waldorf says that he still agrees with a lot of the arguments, but that they seem "a little...
...WOULD SEEM that the University would lose money by not building rental units at the St. Paul's parking lot site. However, only a small portion of the property's rental income need be diverted toward a residential center for homeless families. In addition, a fair amount of extra money may be attained by the University in the form of grants for research into the problems of the homeless family...
...Doolittle doubts that his sojourn at Harvard will be permanent. "I seem to have about a two-year span of attention," he says pragmatically. Doolittle doesn't know what he'll be doing in five years, or in 20, but he says he knows that one thing will be with him for the rest of his life: "I guess I'll die with a poor attitude...
...problem facing inner-city youths, however, has been that they seem to reap little of the economic benefit even when the job market is expanding. Congressman Jack Kemp, a Republican from upstate New York, is a leading advocate of urban enterprise zones, which would use tax incentives to encourage businesses to provide jobs in depressed urban areas. Others feel that it is necessary to create work programs that will draw young blacks away from the inner cities, where the underclass culture makes it extremely difficult to break out of the poverty cycle. Nicholas Lemann, a journalist with the Atlantic, describes...
Some questions seem rather conclusively settled. The Zapruder film, for example, shows Kennedy lurching backward after the shot to his head, implying that the bullet came from somewhere in front of the car. But the medical evidence leaves no doubt that both shots came from the rear; as one expert explains, the backward lurch could have been caused by an involuntary neuromuscular reaction to the devastating bullet...