Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because they live with the constant threat of expulsion for the slightest offenses-real or imagined-Western correspondents stationed in Moscow tend to turn out supercautious, colorless copy. Not CBS's Hughes Rudd. With characteristic zest, he breaks the general journalistic rule, and for some reason he is allowed to stay on. Ever since he arrived in Russia in February 1965, Rudd has twitted his hosts in sardonic, deadpan style. If the censor notices, he is obviously not annoyed; he either likes Rudd's jokes or he misses the point...
...Highly-ranked departments in closely allied fields tend to clump together. For instance, a "distinguished" political science department is usually found in a school with a "distinguished" history department...
States may ultimately find a role in solving problems hitherto reserved for the cities--and the federal government. Everyone knows that as the middle class flees to the suburbs, cities' tax bases tend to shrink, while their needs for revenue, generated by the presence of increasing numbers of poor people, continue to grow. Political scientists have often urged the formation of metropolitan governments, but city home rule-one of the great causes of urban reform in the first years of this century--allows suburbs to refuse to be joined to the less affluent cities. (Fear of racial desegregation also plays...
...Usually they confuse spatial relationships. Horizontally, this leads, for example, to spelling first as frist, very as vrey. Vertically, it may cause mixups between u and n, b and p, R and B. Their sense of time may be confused, so that even if they hear well, they tend to transpose sounds, get sentences mixed...
...professor suggests a hypothetical case: "The accused has admitted to you, in response to your assurance of confidentiality, that he is guilty. However, he insists upon taking the stand to protest his innocence." Should the lawyer permit such perjury? Yes, says Freedman. Despite the presumption of innocence, most jurors tend to presume guilt in a defendant who shuns the stand. To keep him off "will most seriously prejudice his case." The lawyer may quit the case, of course, but he may also have to tell the judge his reason-in effect, declare his client guilty. Thus, says Freedman, morality...