Word: bents
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...Graham has got a deep commitment to protecting the environment, but in a cost-efficient way," said Granger Morgan '63, who was Graham's PhD. advisor at Carnegie Mellon University. "Graham is conservative-bent, inclined towards heavy use of cost-benfit analysis and promoting market-based solutions...
Amazon.com, in its continuing quest to turn a profit in the e-tailing game, has long been bent on transforming itself into the Wal-Mart of cyberspace, expanding from books to electronics to drugs to furniture to cars...
...government has bent, a little. The coalition parties in the Senate approved the decree along with amendments to reduce the cap on renegotiated loans to just under 10% for most individuals and even lower for first-time home buyers. But that may not be enough. The Greens, part of the governing coalition, are still dead set against the decree and have sworn to vote against it in the Chamber of Deputies unless it is amended yet again. Their vote is unlikely to keep the compromise from passing, but the split will look bad for a center-left alliance that...
...Germany, studying the relatively young art of which he was to be such a master: photography. This was his first obsession, and when he got back to New York, he made up his mind to revolutionize it. Most American photographers, to him, were stuffy and sentimental "pictorialists," so bent on imitating the look of painting that they couldn't treat photography as an equal, independent medium. He developed a "straight" photography--direct, candid and true to nature--that captured American city experience as it had never been caught on film before, from the steaming draft horses in The Terminal...
Arianne R. Cohen's Editor's Notebook ("Taking God out of Government," Feb. 9) was remarkable in its ability to amuse and irritate. Cohen's argument rests on the fact that she doesn't like the religious bent of others and thinks they should act as she sees...