Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these problems seem to be resolved. Daniloff is back home in America and Reagan will soon leave for Iceland to lay the groundwork for an arms accord with Gorbachev...
Only in California is a Democratic incumbent facing serious opposition. Three-term Senator Alan Cranston would seem an endangered species in the Golden State. He is an ardent liberal in an increasingly Republican state; he is a gaunt-looking 72-year-old in a state that worships youth. And he is opposed by Republican Congressman Ed Zschau, 46, a clean-cut moderate who made a fortune as an electronics entrepreneur in Silicon Valley...
...weight alone (3 lbs. 7 1/2 oz.) would seem the right heft for a doorstop and the wrong one for a best seller. But King has become a brand name himself, and his publishers ordered a supernatural first printing of 800,000 copies -- and then demanded five additional printings, for a current total of 1,025,000 copies. When an author receives that kind of recognition, two factors are at work: his skills and the vitality of his genre. King, who regards It as a "very badly constructed book," may be a little too hard on himself. But the frightful...
...great many of the King-Bachman books seem to have been written on a word processor by a word processor. The author often employs three exclamation points !!! where one would suffice, shows a blithe disregard for grammar ("My mother used to tell my brother David and I to 'hope for the best and expect the worst' "), and produces metaphors that obviously embarrass their creator: "He felt that he had unwittingly stuck his hand into the Great Wasps' Nest of Life. As an image it stank." But all along he displays one talent that never flags -- he is able to convince...
...elements of a Daniloff deal seem apparent: the U.S. wants the Soviets to agree to let the American go home without a trial, and at a later date Zakharov would be exchanged for an as yet undetermined number of dissidents. But in return the Soviets want reconsideration of the U.N. expulsions. Two weeks ago the U.S. ordered the 25 staff members out by Oct. 1, but so far the Soviets say only six or seven have actually departed. The Soviets also maintain that there are fewer than 200 staffers now registered at their mission, well below the figure...