Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...growth in trade. When the U.S. and Britain run big payments deficits, they pump out plenty of dollars and pounds for the world to use. When other Western countries accumulate a lot of dollars and pounds, on the other hand, their bankers start to complain of inflation and tend to trade in some of that money for U.S. and British gold. There is constantly a dilemma: either Washington and London lose gold, or the rest of the Western world runs low on capital...
...yesterday's report, the special committee declared that de facto segregation harms both Negroes and whites. "White children rarely meet Negro children as individuals. Their thinking often becomes stereotyped. Negro children growing up in ignorance of whites also tend to develop a distorted and fearful picture of all whites...
...time, however, those participating in tomorrow's march should be clear in their own minds about what kind of opposition they are expressing. The advantages of a march lie ultimately in the weight of numbers and the impact of publicity. All too often, the confusion and emotion of demonstration tend to cloud the content of the positions proposed. If protest of government policy in Vietnam is to be both constructive and convincing, it must include a full understanding of the Administration's intentions, the policy alternatives--suggested, and the implications of those alternatives--and not merely songs, pickets and eloquent...
...closer to their host nations. Officers and men of different races serve happily together in units of the Indian and Malaysian armed forces, where the military-command structure replaces communal loyalties. Above all, as industrialization spreads in Asia, traditional cleavages, based on almost exclusively agricultural ways of life, may tend to blur. In the short run, industrialization and economic competition may bring further strains, but in the long run, the machine does homogenize people. And a better life-even the mere prospect of a better life-can establish a sense of community...
...room schools are dying for sound and substantial reasons. Mrs. Lundberg may preserve good three-R education, and Mrs. McKenney may prove that a one-room school can adopt new trends. But the bulk of such schools, says Robert Isenberg of the N.E.A.'s rural-education department, "tend to be rather sorry, ill-equipped places." Buildings are as much as 100 years old. Most of the teachers have had less than four years of college training...