31.   Comparing portfolios became an exercise in status seeking and it seemed for a time that anybody could become an overnight millionaire with a hyped-up initial public offering.

32.   Deciding which kind of setting seems right for your child can help you narrow your options.

33.   Deficits seem certain for the next few years, and there no longer seems much chance of paying off the bulk of the national debt.

34.   Despite its own convulsive past, Uganda has seemed for many years now a stable island in a region racked by civil wars.

35.   Every time he speaks he seems to contradict himself, but perhaps that is fitting coming from Mike Tyson, for whom everything seems to be a contradiction.

36.   Faced with those competing demands, Aristide seems for the time being to have chosen a third course, diplomats and military analysts said.

37.   For all the promise of a young Internet enterprise, Banyan is still stuck turning around difficult problems with a computer networking business that seemed down for the count.

38.   For decades it seemed to matter little.

39.   For months he seemed indifferent to the quotidian business of governing Russia.

40.   For Luhrmann it seems to be a matter of turning up the volume.