Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rich tend to get richer. In the $50,000-and-over income group, $80 out of every $ 100 of assets is busy making money, while families in the $5,000,810,000 range hold only $36 out of every $100 in income-producing assets...
...long-established tradition of neighborhood schooling, would not serve the cause of expanded opportunity as clearly as the other proposals. In effect it would deprive some white parents of the freedom to take advantage of their social mobility, a freedom not available to most Negro parents, and thereby tend to equalize coercions rather than equalize opportunity. The sum total of freedom would not be increased, or at any rate not so clearly as is the case in connection with housing, employment, and public accomodations...
Some months before Cassius won his title there were rumors that he was a Black Muslim, and since becoming champion Clay has proudly advertised his new religion and his new name--Muhammed Ali. Most of us tend to view Cassius as a well meaning, but misled child, and as such it is disturbing to see Elijah Muhammed ministering to his spiritual needs...
...times of economic vigor, companies tend to increase their inventories, expecting even greater sales ahead and hoping to avoid possible increases in the cost of materials. The U.S. economy is certainly healthy-but the supplies on the nation's shelves have not been building up in their usual relation to sales. In fact, the Commerce Department announced last week, business inventories in January actually declined by $160 million (to $103 billion), the first monthly drop since early 1961. What is going...
...House. The increasing need for power is caused by the world's rapidly expanding population, the steady industrialization of underdeveloped nations and the increasing affluence of the West. Wealthier nations tend to treat electricity as if it were air; merchants often leave lights blazing all night, and big cities never grow dark. In the U.S., the average number of appliances in the home has risen from ten to 40 (including lamps) in 25 years, with a consequent drain on power. But electricity has also become a necessity in whole areas of the world that only recently regarded...