Word: seem
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...concentrating on wooing those voters who cast ballots for candidates disqualified after the first round. More than half the followers of Freda Meissner-Blau, an environmentalist and former Socialist, are expected to place their support behind Steyrer, while those in the camp of Otto Scrinzi, a former SS officer, seem more likely to vote conservative. Ultimately, however, the issue may come down to a contest between those who believe that Waldheim's secret past will be universally forgiven and those...
...Award, for Bob Fosse's explosive choreography, yet it ran 18 months on the strength of its likability and slickness. Those are still the show's virtues, and when coupled with a tireless effort by TV Star Debbie Allen (Fame) in the title role originated by Gwen Verdon, they seem to be enough for another long run. The opening won nearly unanimous praise, and by the weekend the box office had tallied a $1 million advance sale...
What the horrified scientist had come upon seemed to be the result of an event that had occurred several years before--perhaps the worst nuclear accident in history up to that time. Sometime in the winter of 1957-58, it became apparent that the area around the city of Kyshtym, believed to be a center of Soviet plutonium production, was contaminated by large amounts of radiation. Though the causes of the disaster remain murky, the effects seem to have been devastating. As winds picked up and scattered the radiation debris, the poison spread across an area larger than New York...
...cause of the wasteland, a few years after the disaster, the government sent death squads of prisoners to cover up the contaminated soil with sand. The workers were housed in special barracks, and many probably died from intense doses of radiation. Sometime after Tumerman's visit, Soviet authorities seem to have completely given up on the region, evacuating all farmers, destroying their houses and fencing the area off with barbed wire. Finally, officials decided to use the devastated zone as a radiological training ground for army troops...
Following the Chernobyl accident, the Soviet Union reportedly closed all reactors that were built with the same design, a total of some 20 units that produce an estimated 5% of the country's electricity supply. Nonetheless, the Soviets seem certain to press ahead with their ambitious program of nuclear construction. Gorbachev has made atomic energy, which provides 11% of the country's power, a cornerstone of his drive to double the size of the Soviet economy by the year 2000. Thirty-four new nuclear plants are under construction. The plants are needed all the more because Soviet oil reserves...