Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when labor and management tend to reason rather than wrangle, the United Auto Workers' Local 833 and Wisconsin's Kohler Co. remained locked in a mastodontic duel for more years than most Americans care to remember. The longest major labor dispute in U.S. history, the Kohler strike began in April 1954, when workers at the plumbing-fixtures plant stormed out in a disagreement with the family-owned firm over a series of union demands for higher wages and fringe benefits. After a two-month closure, the factory resumed production with nonunion labor, touching off six years of intermittent...
...soft, dark grey substance that geologists call "quick clay" is composed primarily of small flaky particles and a great deal of water. It contains very little of the electrolytic salts that tend to bind normal soil particles together...
...more for the money that they borrow from the Federal Reserve System, they will pass that cost along first to their biggest customers: businessmen. Actually, many banks have already been collecting close to 5% by cutting down the number of those eligible for the prime rate; now they will tend to up that rate by another ½% to many of their customers. Since interest costs are tax deductible, few businessmen will be driven away unless the Reserve Board follows up by restricting the actual supply of credit, which it insists it does not plan...
Those who suggest that the reports be circulated only to the department chairmen present two arguments. They insist that ad hominem comments in the reports should not be published and also argue that department chairmen and members will tend to be less cooperative with the HPC if they know that the information may be made public...
...group feels that lectures tend to transmit inaccurately and imprecisely information that could be gleaned from textbooks and periodicals. Furthermore, textbooks and periodicals. Furthermore, the labs "waste time" on experiments that "have little relevance to the science of medicine," the spokesman explained...