Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prerogatives Preserved. Psychiatrist Kubie is aware that his suggestion of custody by private committee appears to raise a legal question: If widely adopted, might it tend to usurp court prerogatives in custody matters? The answer, he feels, is probably no. And in a student note appended to Kubie's article, the Yale Journal agrees. It points out that courts, as the ultimate arbiters of family disputes, would always have the right to review committee decisions at the request of either parent. Moreover, suggests the note, overworked courts might be helping themselves by heeding the consensus of such private councils...
...Stern, "but he's within broad limits. It's never a question of 'do this.' " Cartoonist Oliphant is not likely to chafe at this gentle restriction. The Post endorsed Kennedy in 1960 and will back Johnson this year; Oliphant's attitudes are similar. "I tend to lean Democratic now," he said. "But I don't believe a cartoonist should come out one way or another." Newcomer Oliphant's first-blush impression of U.S. politics: "Very cartoonable...
Many political theorists nurse the notion that upper-case Issues are the only things that count; they tend to treat political personality as an interesting but unimportant sidelight to any presidential campaign. But personality and issues are inextricably intertwined...
...Washington Diocese, about 80% of the fund raising for major projects is done by pros, says Auxiliary Bishop John Spence. Recognizing the growing role of professionalism, the Methodists' American University in Washington awards M.A.s and Ph.D.s in church business management. But some Protestant clergymen now tend to think that professional fund raising is counterproductive. Says the Rev. Theodore Palmquist: "Our people don't like to give when they know that 10% of their money will go to professionals...
...profit pinch because scrap prices have jumped sharply in the past few months. A surge of imports of barbed wire and nails has hurt Peoria's Keystone Steel, which specializes in those products. Some small steelmen complain that they have difficulty borrowing to expand and modernize, since bankers tend to favor the larger firms. But the small ones often manage to be more daring than the conservative giants, sometimes lead in technical innovation. The first basic oxygen steel furnace in the U.S., in fact, was introduced a decade ago by Detroit's relatively small McLouth Steel...