Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pack since 1968, when it boosted the annual pay of its new lawyers to a then impressive $15,000. Last week, moving out front once more, the firm said that it will raise salaries for freshly minted attorneys from $53,000 to $65,000. While such big paychecks may seem excessive for recent graduates, Cravath and other top firms say they have been losing talent to the even more lucrative field of investment banking, in which starting pay can run as high as $75,000. Says Samuel Butler, Cravath's presiding partner: "Our new salary levels may not come close...
...times under intense antiaircraft fire, how could pilots of the F-111 fighter bombers plant so many of their bombs on or near targets as small and discrete as a single building or a row of planes? By high-tech wizardry that makes a real-life bombing run seem almost as simple as a video game...
...Libyans, who make a point of observing the niceties of the relationship between host and guest, were understandably cool to the U.S. correspondents. "Their mood was sullen and angry," notes TIME's Fischer, "but their hostility did not seem directed at us." After Gaddafi's brief TV appearance Wednesday night, demonstrators began chanting "Down, Down, U.S.A.!" in front of the hotel, while others, in a more festive mood, organized a horn-tooting, flag-waving victory procession along the city's + corniche. Libyan radio reports that U.S. pilots had been lynched by furious mobs did not engender affection for Americans...
...courage of their convictions--or their animosities. "If we genuinely believe that Gaddafi is more than just a booking agent for terrorism," says Robert Kupperman, a terrorism expert at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies, "then covert means of getting rid of him should be considered. We seem to be dealing in niceties. We think we can use the larger instruments of warfare to bring about his elimination, but that we shouldn't use the smaller ones, such as a pistol...
...skies, and that surviving pilots were being hunted down by local citizens "like mad dogs." Authorities made no attempt to prove either claim, but few Libyans expected Gaddafi to let matters rest where they stood. Nor did those on the front line of the U.S. side seem to think that last week's raid put an end to the contest of wills between Gaddafi and Washington. On the day after the raid, TIME Correspondent Sam Allis noticed that someone had scrawled a message on the circular rear end of a Sidewinder missile stored on the deck of the carrier America...