Elf, it seems, operated for many years as the unofficial slush fund of the French state, paying for everything from the suborning of African dictators to the election campaigns of the main right- and left-wing parties and lavish homes for selected executives.
Reality shows, it seems, operate on a sort of Chomskyan deep grammar whereby we already know the structure intuitively from the start.
It seems to operate on the assumption that it is its patriotic duty to harass anyone wishing to come to America.
"It seems to operate fine, but I wonder if this is just for PR value," he said.
But mostly it seems to operate on the assumption that it's still funny, post "Fernwood Tonight" and "The Larry Sanders Show" and Mr. Letterman, simply to expose the talk show's fundamental insincerity.
As Susan Sontag might say, it seems to operate as a flight from interpretation, settling into the genre for a ride, looking away from the wider implications of the world to enjoy itself by unfolding action within a neatly closed universe.
It seems to operate magically, sealing off the precious bottles.
It seems that operated patients were more willing to participate in the study than patients treated with a hormone therapy.
The mechanism by which the hybrid crosses are aborted is unknown, but it seems to operate after mating and before karyogamy [ 25, 26], which is the time span from which our sex-associated gene category was identified.
But, really, Sony makes it seem like operating a DSLR requires a Ph.D from the Sorbonne.
