Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...repeat that I disclose these tentative opinions to provoke faculty discussion, not to inhibit it. What emerges from this essay is that our current rules relating to secrecy in research do not seem either adequately framed or sufficiently understood within this community to deal satisfactorily with the kinds of issues we have been discussing. By themselves, of course, the situations we have analyzed may seem minor. Probably, only a few faculty members will ever encounter such problems in their own work. Still, the principles at stake are important to a community of scholars, and the kinds of questions we have...
...Mostly [the poems in White Shroud] are about sex or dope or politics or meditation. Now that I'm 60 I'm looking at who I am as a public persona and a private persona and seeing if there's any difference....Do [the poems] seem self-conscious? A wkwardly...
...FINAL CASUALTY: some people seem to be becoming more hypochondriacal. In about half of all visits to primary care physicians, no significant disease can be diagnosed to account for the patients symptoms. Indeed, about one-third of all the patients in a general medical practice have no serious medical disorder...
...capita physician visits are also higher than ever before. Surveys reveal that we now seek medical attention for milder symptoms than ever in the past. We seem to be growing more discomfitted by the inevitable aches and ailments of life...
...classified information needed for a complete investigation of SDI, the independent panel of scientists agreed to allow the government to review their final report for any classified data it might contain. There is nothing wrong with keeping secrets secret. But in this case the reasons for secrecy seem more related to politics than to security. The Administration has already classified a report on SDI by the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress. Now SDIO wants to censor the panel's findings and panel members have said they would be unwilling to publish the document without the sections...