Word: seem
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...pulling its agents out of Mexico altogether, and some Mexicans have indicated that they would not be sorry to see them go. "Mexico forcefully rejects any attempt to violate its sovereignty in the pursuit of narcotics traffickers," said Senate Leader Antonio Riva Palacio. In practice, however, American drug agents seem unlikely to leave Mexico, where they have operated since the 1930s. The U.S. needs Mexican help in fighting the incoming flow of drugs, and Mexico needs the goodwill of its northern neighbor to cope with the Latin American country's $98 billion foreign debt. "It's a marriage without divorce...
...period when he gathered together many of his earlier essays in Classics and Commercials (1950), The Shores of Light (1952) and Red, Black, Blond and Olive (1956). His 60th birthday in 1955 prompted him to offer A Piece of My Mind: Reflections at Sixty (1956). Though this may seem a rather heterogeneous outpouring, there was an underlying coherence. "Much of Wilson's postwar energy," as David Castronovo has written in a critical biography, "was devoted to the analysis of the Western power drive -- where it came from, the forms it takes, what we can do about it." Thus, even...
...obsolescence of 1960s enthusiasms. The same can be said for Demon Box, a collection of new and previously published magazine pieces about the good old days, departed friends, family, the pull of the soil and the lure of dope. Spruced up and polished, these writings impress and entertain but seem like an attempt to squeeze a few more miles out of a writer who has either run out of gas or has been stalled by too many chemical additives...
...demonstrate instead that the situation is taking a new and even more dangerous turn. It has deep roots in the townships where many of South Africa's 24 million blacks live, increasingly angry and frustrated not only at a repressive white government but at any of their neighbors who seem to tolerate...
...stingy with vital technical data about the April 26 disaster, and too reluctant to admit to design flaws in their reactors. The Soviets insisted that their designs were basically safe, and that "gross" human error had caused history's worst nuclear power catastrophe. Said one Canadian expert: "They seem to be saying, 'You can criticize our operators but not our machines...