Word: seemed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...work too hard. Take some time off. You should work out. Go to Europe,' " he says. "I stopped writing in a diary because it became so repetitive." So now he says he's taking his first year off. "If I go right back to working, then I seem like a crazy person who didn't learn the lesson of his own movie," he says. "You want overlap so if this one bombs, you're already on production as a safety net. But I'm trying to see if I have the courage to sit in that empty space and ponder...
...Well, cold cash money doesn't seem to be doing the trick too well either. On Tuesday, July 28, executives from firms such as Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo were invited to a meeting at the Treasury Department for a little pep talk about increasing the number of loan modifications. Officials at Treasury, along with the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD; co-host of the head-knocking session), have been underwhelmed by the rewrites. The government's original goal was to get more-affordable monthly payments to 3 million to 4 million borrowers. As of mid-July...
Minorities in China Recently it seems to have become fashionable to criticize China as a country of injustice and repression [War in the West, July 20]. Of course, Chinese internal policy often contradicts Western democratic ideals, but we must not forget that millions of Han Chinese are facing the very same troubles as the Uighurs: economic discrimination and travel restrictions. In addition, China is not the only country in which minorities are underprivileged. Europe and the U.S. both face the problem of minorities that are not properly integrated. But in the Chinese case, things seem to be different: for example...
...think the fact that you're trying - on the one hand I thought trying to do this in a middle of a recession, when everybody is looking at people around them losing their jobs would sort of make people more anxious for something to grab onto that would seem secure. The polling would suggest that people - It's not true...
This let's-go-get-loaded spirit might not seem so strange in countries that have long battled excessive youth drinking and alcoholism. But Italy has always prided itself on a balanced - even divine - rapport with the strong stuff. Call it a sipping culture rather than a drinking culture: Italians traditionally serve wine at the family dinner table, with boys and girls often getting their first taste of alcohol around age 12. The national minimum drinking age of 16 is often ignored and rarely enforced. (Read "Should the Drinking Age Be Lowered...