Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...later age. In ten years, the number of autos in England has doubled, and in Germany the car census has grown from 500,000 in 1950 to more than 7,000,000 now. Driving schools are crowded with middle-aged learners. The tests are usually elaborate, but they tend to be more intellectual than practical. The standard French examination, for instance, does not necessarily ensure that a candidate knows how to make a turn from the proper lane, but it sternly requires theoretical answers to such questions as: "What actions does one take when approaching a funeral cortege...
...abrasive first-name greeting or a sledgehammer sales pitch to a more reserved European manager. It may be the way some businessmen and their families live abroad, spending money ostentatiously, not bothering to learn the language and clustering in American communities. Or it could be Yankee cockiness. "Americans tend to overestimate their abilities," says a German executive for a U.S. subsidiary. "Consciously or unconsciously, they tend to ignore the different mentality of Europeans and force the American way of thinking on people under their authority...
...cartridges are lighter, and so is the rifle itself. An M-16 with 120 rounds of ammo weighs only 9 Ibs., no more than an empty M-14. Its bullets are not as accurate at ranges greater than 300 yds. because they are deliberately given less stabilizing spin. They tend to tumble, and since they usually hit their targets sideways, they do extra damage. The M-14 kicks like a mule, but the M-16 is almost kickless. It can be fired rapidly, with little tendency toward wildness...
...little magazines"-a select and often little-read group of literary periodicals-tend to remain small because they appeal to limited audiences. Yet one of the newer little magazines shows promise of surprising growth. It is the eight-year-old Tulane Drama Review, in which Editor Richard Schechner, a Tulane University Ph.D., combines a scholar's skill with the insight and pugnacity of a first-rate journalist. Since taking over two years ago, he has increased the stature of T.D.R. enough that the American National Theater and Academy last month switched its group subscription from Show to T.D.R. ANTA...
...price increases from over-demand. Industry has either been able to absorb its costs through higher efficiency, or else-as in the case of the battle for the fuel market among oil, coal and gas -is caught in the kind of competition that produces price cuts. Besides, prosperous consumers tend to trade up to the better models that produce more money for manufacturers and thus reduce the need for price increases...