Word: seems
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...would seem then that the "problem" is either that there are simply too many Jews writing for the editorial page or that these Jews are personally too "Jewish" for the taste of certain Crimson executives--justifications which are equally offensive...
...When I first began I went to a lot of the recruiting meetings," says Alison F. Egan '01, a council member. She says the meeting made it seem like council women had a united front...
...divine providence in all things. Of the potentially fatal bullet that hit her daughter Candace but was deflected by a rib, Kim Porter says, "God held her the right way." Jonesboro has always counted its blessings. Here folks aim to forgive, as improbable and unnatural as it may seem. "The healing cannot begin until we forgive," said Gary Cremeens, a minister at the funeral of Paige Ann Herring, the first of the girls to be buried. He intoned the story of Jesus and Lazarus from the Gospel: "He cried with a loud voice, 'Lazarus, come forth.' And he that...
...Amnesty International has waged a battle with manufacturers and governments around the world to curb commerce in these devices. Amnesty says electric-shock torture or the abuse of prisoners with shock devices has occurred in at least 50 countries in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia. "Torturers seem to be discovering that electroshock stun weapons are ideal for their evil purposes--cheap, easy to conceal and hard to trace," says Brian Wood, who tracks the weapons internationally for Amnesty. TIME's own investigation found few international controls over the devices, along with disturbing evidence that stun guns from...
...happening in almost every sector of the economy, it is particularly striking in oil, in which politics and business, almost from the beginning, have been so intertwined. One of the lasting lessons of the oil crisis is the way in which markets can, given flexibility, sort out what seem to be intractable problems. Oil companies are no longer seen as "national champions" essential to national objectives--not when oil is bought and sold every day in huge volumes on the futures markets...