| 1 | I should not like to be brutal or seem extravagant. | |
| 2 | But that seeming inevitability was not so obvious to me at the time. | |
| 3 | But, how can we quantify and measure these seemingly intangible elements? | |
| 4 | It lets lazy or biased people make what seem to be cogent arguments without understanding the whole issue. | |
| 5 | WASHINGTON - It seems as if the country that used to make everything is on the brink of making nothing. |