One reason may be that salaries and opportunities in other fields may appear more attractive.
While bankruptcy may appear more orderly, it, too, has costs: time and money.
Occasionally a woman may appear more in control of her destiny.
But now, with the spread in allowed contributions larger, they may appear more tempting to those who qualify.
Michael Kenna's photographs may appear more conventional, but to me they also show how you can keep the viewer guessing.
What may appear more likely to matter is that to most voters both the biggest parties seem a distance away from where they are themselves.
Rupert Murdoch may appear more assertive, as he did yesterday; he will say that he will restore News Corp.'s good name, as he did yesterday, too.
Instead, you select the 10 digits -- some may appear more than once -- that will form the city's projected budget deficit for the following year.
Those goals may appear more elusive than ever, but Mr. Sharon retains substantial support, partly because Israelis have not been persuaded by any alternative policy or politician.
Some may appear more frequently because they are favourable to the organism; the frequency of others may be determined by accidents of chance, called genetic drift.
To modern eyes the faux Egyptian hieroglyphics, which carry on into the foyer and through to the 616-seat auditorium, may appear more kitsch than classy, but there's an undeniable charm and faded Hollywood chutzpah about the place.
