Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...task of cutting hour lectures down to 15 minutes poses some special problems. "Long complicated sentences." he explained, "tend to break down much faster than short, simple ones at speeded rates." Cramer is attempting to prove, however, that speeded speech, like speeded reading, increases the level of retention and comprehension...
John Kenneth Gallraith, Warburg Professor of Economics and frequent consultant to Johnson, called the FRB's action "an arrogant exercise in self assertion." He added. "The Board's 4-3 decision reflects less interest in stability than a desire of people with money to tend to get a greater return on their loans...
...wrote to Newsweek that since the overwhelming majority of Kashmiri is Moslem (the state religion of Pakistan), they tend to be anti-Indian. Miss Levine also stressed that accounts of anti-Indian sentiment are systematically omitted from the Indian press...
...tend to have few trusted friends, feel most comfortable in mixing with people who, like themselves, have made it big. They also have little time for their families. Arthur Carlsberg, for example, is so busy that he rarely sees his three sons; he takes off one week a year to spend with them, also leaves the office to be with them on their birthdays-and that's about it. Many millionaires say that they worry that all the money may soften their youngsters, rob them of incentive and aggressiveness. To fight that possibility, Boston Real Estate Millionaire Gerald Blakeley...
However, the Pharmacy Committee in general has felt that prices tend to be slightly higher in the Square than else where in the Cambridge vicinity. In any case, a great deal of variation in prices of specific drugs has been noted over a period of time...