Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important, in the long run, as attracting well-known behaviorists, is achieving balance among lower-level appointments. And several professors admit that there is a (partly unconscious) anti-behavioral bias at this level. Departments tend to themselves, as senior members are marily of work being done in their such empiricists as V.O. Key have -building personality" of some of the more traditionalist professors, such as Friedrich or Elliott...
Three facts, however, will tend to lighten Governors' burdens. The Kennedy-Johnson prosperity, if it continues, will obviate the need for some tax rises and make others more palatable, as it has during the past two years. And the President's education bill will provide considerable sums to needy states and localities...
...American women took to thermals for other reasons. "I love that oldfashioned, hand-knit look," said one New York housewife. "I'm so tired of everything being made slick and plastic and impersonal." Housewives also value its practicality: while wool blankets tend to emerge from the washing machine feeling like congealed cardboard, cotton thermals neither stiffen nor shrink, and they do not carry the static electricity that is the plague of lightweight synthetic brands...
...vast bulk of blanket sales is still in the cheap (under $5) rayon blends, which tend to shrink and wear badly. But in the quality field, thermals are the up-and-coming item. This year 7,500,000 thermals will be sold, as compared with 400,000 wools, 5,500,000 electrics and 5,000,000 acrylics. Most blanket-makers now produce thermals ranging in price from $3.99 to $20. They would much rather not. But three years ago a bedspread manufacturer, Morgan-Jones, put the first cotton thermal into U.S. stores. With little advertising except by word of mouth...
Almost as dangerous as radiant heat is the fearful cold of space, which strikes wherever an object is shadowed from the sun. If an astronaut stays long out of sunlight, as may be necessary on future space missions, his body heat will tend to leak away. Thus the outer layer must be made of material that does not radiate too much heat. The Russians have not told what they use for a space-suit coating, only that it is white...