Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will actively pursue negotiations will probably not suffice to wring an aid package out of Congress this time around. Though it appears likely that Congress will eventually vote to send some more assistance, it is almost certain that there will be tight strings on the money. The proposals that seem to attract the most congressional support call for withholding all or some aid--at least the money used for buying weapons--for several months while the Administration seeks a negotiated peace between the Sandinistas and the contras, as well as a treaty securing peace in the region...
...Sandinista army storming up though Honduras, linking forces with its revolutionary allies in El Salvador, and driving on through Guatemala and into Mexico. The prospect of an armed Communist bulwark on America's southern flank is what Reagan dreads most. But the governments of Nicaragua's neighbors do not seem as concerned, in part because they believe the U.S. would immediately jump to the rescue. "We're not really afraid of a Sandinista invasion," says one Honduran military officer. "They wouldn't make it to Tegucigalpa before the 82nd Airborne got here...
...does not seem at all likely that the contras are going to make them vanish, at least anytime soon. Cut off from U.S. military aid by Congress since 1984, the rebels have been losing ground to Nicaragua's well-equipped, well-trained counterinsurgency battalions. A year ago, some 15,000 contras roamed the Nicaraguan countryside, mostly across the northern third of the country. Today only about 4,000 contras remain in Nicaragua; the rest have been pushed back into their Honduran sanctuaries. Last week, in raids timed to show the flag to Congress, 3,000 contras infiltrated across the Honduran...
Guare's satire may seem a bit less fresh and daring than it did 15 years ago, if only because it has spawned so many imitators, but in the joyous and all but flawless revival at Lincoln Center, his jokes break up audiences as dizzyingly as ever. So do the wrenching emotional scenes of a boldly tragicomic plot. At the center is a lovers' triangle: a zookeeper and would-be songwriter, played with ingratiating and ultimately terrifying optimism by John Mahoney; his mistress, pneumatically impersonated by Stockard Channing; and his eerily manic-depressive wife, evoked with simultaneous goofiness and dignity...
...tide may be turning. Consumers seem to be developing a healthy concern about the debts they have amassed, and are at last restraining their spending. The Department of Commerce last week reported that the economy grew at an anemic .7% rate during the final quarter of last year, a marked decline from the Government's earlier estimate of 1.3%. For the year, the economy expanded at a respectable but far from robust rate...