Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Should civil rights groups tend merely to their own cause, or should they take stands on broader issues-such as U.S. foreign policy? There is growing disagreement about the answer to that question...
...criminal justice: the lack of a complete set of rational standards to coordinate the thinking of police, judges, lawyers, law professors and informed citizens. The Supreme Court has done the pioneering work-work that it could not constitutionally avoid. But rule making by constitutional interpretation has limits; such rules tend to be confined to the happenstances in particular cases and are often more confusing than clarifying. The burden is now on Congress and state legislatures, which are ideally equipped for the fact finding required in so vast and varied a country...
...sounds like a very mundane thing to consider, but what on earth is the use of spending tremendous amounts of money on education if, when people get through, they can't leave home?" Among "the greatest hazards" for female college graduates, she added, is the fact that they tend to abandon their intellectual talents "because they are swamped by the routines of bringing up children in a servantless world...
...preferences and life-styles preferred by many Jews are coming to be shared by non-Jews." Many a bright Gentile college girl is attracted to Jewish men because of their intellectual and liberal attitudes. A growing number of Gentiles who marry Jews convert to Judaism-and, like most converts, tend to be stricter than their mates. In Los Angeles, for instance, two schools of instruction for converts function full time. Judaism traditionally declines to seek converts, but with a little proselytizing push, some Jewish leaders feel, conversions might eventually offset losses...
Because the fortunes of the free world's industrial nations are so intertwined, troubles tend to spread-like a run in a woman's stocking. Part of Wall Street's recent skittishness has been laid to concern about some weak spots that have appeared in the world economy. Many stock markets abroad have suffered bad falls of late: last week stock prices in Tokyo sank to a five-year low (then rallied 3%), and the French Government, in an unprecedented move, admitted that it had intervened to support the price of some shares on the Bourse. There...