Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ackermann's treatment of her next four years on the council seem tacked on to the end of the book. Although the content remains fascinating, the chapters drift away from the emotion at Roosevelt Towers...
...with right in the middle of a conversation, as if it were a pipe, and the canvas tote he uses as a briefcase, and his habit of loudly cracking his knuckles. On top of that there are the Old Testament beard and the preacher's voice that make him seem like Moses come down again from Mount Sinai to deliver commandments 11 through 20. Smoking? It's an addiction that will kill you. Sex? Only in marriage. AIDS? The best preventive device is a monogamous relationship; the second best, a condom. Deformed newborns? Save them. Sex education? In the earliest...
Some fast-lane veterans who are fed up with their harried working conditions are trying other escape routes, including climbing down the corporate ladder. Trading in a big salary for a lower-level job with more vacation time, flexible hours, improved maternity or paternity leave, even weekends off may seem a luxury, but it is one that many people are choosing. Dann Pottinger, 42, nephew and grandson of Florida bank presidents, was CEO of Commercial State Bank of Orlando, one of the most profitable independent banks in central Florida. This winter he chaired the search committee to select his replacement...
...cinematic tales of drug abuse (Less Than Zero, Clean and Sober) have fizzled at the box office, and Wired is an especially downbeat example. What's more, with Belushi's work so vividly remembered (and still widely available in TV reruns), a movie re-creation might seem morbidly gratuitous, even by Hollywood standards...
...fears that giving education entitlement status would prompt a squabble over funding levels for social programs seem unfounded, since the state already guarantees spending levels for important programs such as Social Security and veterans benefits...