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Rubber, clothing, and shipbuilding industries

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by GmatKiss » Tue Apr 03, 2012 8:07 am
In 1933 the rubber, clothing, and shipbuilding industries put into effect a six-hour workday,believing it a seeming permanent accommodation rather than a temporary expedient for what many observers thought was an economy made over productive by advances in technology.

(A) believing it a seeming permanent accommodation rather than a temporary expedient for what many observers thought was
(B) believing it a seeming permanent accommodation instead of a temporary expedient for what many observers thought was
(C) believing that it was not a temporary expedient but a seeming permanent accommodation to what many observers thought of as a
(D) not as a temporary expedient but as a seemingly permanent accommodation to what many observers thought was
(E) not as a temporary expedient but believing it a seemingly permanent accommodation for what many observers
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by sam2304 » Tue Apr 03, 2012 8:14 am
IMO D.

not as X but as Y.

A/B/C - we need an adverb to modify adjective (permanent).
E - wrong usage of idiom idiom.

This is similar to the recently extended sales slump problem in OG. They often change adverb to adjective and make the meaning wrong.
Getting defeated is just a temporary notion, giving it up is what makes it permanent.
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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Tue Apr 03, 2012 8:16 am
A--uses "seeming" to modify permanent. If we're going to modify an adjective, we have to do it with an adverb. "Seemingly" would work.
B--same as A
C--same as A and B

D and E both use "seemingly" correctly, so now we have to analyze in more detail.

D uses parallel form well ("not as...but as"), while E does not ("not as...but"), so we can eliminate E.
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