Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passions are rampant, and urgent questions mount, men turn for guidance to scientists, psychiatrists, sociologists, ideologues, politicians, historians, journalists-almost anyone except their traditional guide, the philosopher. Ironically, the once remote theologians are in closer touch with humanity's immediate and intense concerns than most philosophers, who today tend to be relatively obscure academic technicians. No living U.S. philosopher has the significance to the world at large that John Dewey or George Santayana had a generation or two ago. Many feel that philosophy has played out its role in the history of human culture; the "queen of sciences...
...Philosopher Hubert Dreyfus of M.I.T. is wondering about the possibility of creating a computer that would be completely determined by programming but would behave as if it were a free, intelligent agent. "If something that we knew was just a machine could behave intelligently," he muses, "it would tend to suggest that maybe we are just machines." Would such computers have to be considered conscious beings? Would they raise a civil liberties problem? To some, such questions suggest that science is creating more problems than philosophy can readily cope with; and concepts like antimatter and the expanding universe make some...
...argument U.S. bankers could make was that they were more progressive and flexible than European competitors. Following long tradition, European banks are capricious with commercial loans, often tend to favor companies in which they hold stock interests. U.S. bankers generally provided faster service and better terms. For European companies interested in international trade, American bankers also offered the advantage of worldwide branches, faster interchange Of capital and more exact credit ratings on overseas customers. The argument has been persuasive. France's government-owned Renault, establishing an automobile-assembly plant in Buenos Aires, turned to Bank of America to handle...
Earlier Bond movies, actually, tend to merge in one's memory; the new one, having been built to familiar specifications, gives every promise of being just as forgettable. Once again Bond faces a sadistic criminal megalomaniac and passionate cuties of dubious allegiance. Once again, in fact, his enemy is a member of SPECTURE, a secretive, selective group that dabbles in everything from opium smuggling to world domination. What is it up to this time? No less, it immediately turns out, than blackmailing Britain out of 100 million pounds -- the price demanded for returning two atomic bombs hidden at the bottom...
...high level of intelligence, knowledge and taste. Among the newer readers, there are some fairly clear patterns. A full 80% of our U.S. circulation growth in recent years has been in the urbs, suburbs and exurbs of the East, the industrial Midwest and the Pacific Southwest. These new readers tend to be managerial and professional people, relatively affluent, and getting a little younger. A decade ago, more than half of TIME household heads were managers and professionals, and today the figure is just about the same: 53%. Over the same ten years, their median annual income has risen from...