Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...costliest item in most campaign budgets is TV. Half an hour of prime time in New York City costs at least $75,000. Elsewhere, congressional candidates pay $2,000 or more for a one-shot, one-minute spiel-in which, understandably, they tend to decry the high cost of living. TV politicking has progressed from the soapbox to the spectacular. The image-conscious candidate today is not content merely to exhort or debate in a studio. To hold his audience, he commandeers dramatic vignettes and perky musical numbers. In Congress, many incumbents studiously identify themselves with the controversial issues that...
...kinds of rewards tend to classify a man in his own mind," he explained, adding that low grades can lower a student's opinion of himself...
Objects seem flat and stacked on one another--nothing gives a sense of space or depth. Smoked windows, too, promote the feeling of the unreality of space. They tend to equalize tones while preserving the hues of a sunlit landscape, reducing the view to a colored tapestry hanging on the wall...
...also been suggested that total reliance on the draft exams would tend to favor students at more selective colleges like Harvard. Thus a larger percentage of students from less expensive, less rigorous universities would find themselves being inducted, and the social inequitability of the draft would become still more pronounced...
...these fields, Vorenberg hopes that the commission can promote more efficient cooperation between the various agencies, state and federal, which are involved in crime prevention. "I think everybody recognizes," he notes, "that the system works against itself because there isn't close coordination." The correction people and police people tend to thwart one another by not working together on common problems...