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Word: seemly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aims can sometimes seem incompatible--such as when University policies of confidentiality clash with the public access usually granted to law-enforcement actions, or when Harvard's in loco parentis role comes into conflict with common police practices...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein, | Title: Pounding the Beat With Harvard's Finest | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

When Dardis recounts Fitzgerald's early history, he alleges that his father Edward Fitzgerald was also an alcoholic. He never supports this allegation, but that does not seem to matter to him. In reference to an event in 1908, he glibly writes...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: Writing Under the Influence in the Roaring Twenties | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

Most students seem pleased with long-distance learning. Ninth-grader Vanessa Bryan, one of only 700 residents on Ocracoke Island, N.C., could not have taken Spanish if her school had not tapped into the TI-IN Network. Now she and "classmates" in 18 schools across the country receive instruction from a teacher based in a San Antonio studio. They accept TV tutelage as routine. Says Vanessa: "It's a good course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Beam Me Up, Students Satellite | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

Attempts at economic and political reform in China, the Soviet Union and other Communist countries often seem to consist of two steps forward and one or even two steps back. In China the recent rash of student-led mass demonstrations is just the latest manifestation of deep public discontent over the price of economic reform. In the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev's position has been similarly threatened as the benefits of perestroika have thus far failed to match the short-term costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Communism Confronts Its Children | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

...when the Crimson hits the field tomorrow, 17 days will seem like one. It's tournament time again...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Seventeen Days of Waiting and Waiting | 5/19/1989 | See Source »

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