Word: tend
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...societies, but extramarital relations are almost universally condemned. Every known human society forbids incest, but nearly all have a recognized procedure for divorce, which in the U.S. reaches a peak around the third year of marriage. A curious cementing factor in societies allowing free mate selection is that partners tend to complement each other's psychological needs-for example, "a highly hostile individual would seek to mate with a highly abasing person...
...Individuals tend not to hold out against unanimous group judgments, even when the group is clearly in error. Conversely, humans are most loyal to small groups of peers. Strikes are more common, for example, in industries that tend to be insulated from the larger community, such as mining and lumbering. Similarly, people prejudiced against one ethnic group tend to be prejudiced against others, and do not even know the depth of their prejudice. >"Tolerance" is only slightly promoted by more information. Communication of facts is generally ineffective against predispositions. Even small social changes, if undesired, cannot be effected without heavy...
Cross-Bussing? Negro leaders argue that since Negroes cannot rapidly break down job and housing barriers, they have to muster against the schools-the decaying schools of central Harlem and Brooklyn that are 90% or more Negro and Puerto Rican. With ample evidence that such schools tend to "manufacture" retarded pupils because of overcrowding, poor teaching and lack of cultural stimulus, Negro leaders want compulsory integration with the better and often underused white schools...
Lawyers, Lamb told his audience, tend to spend too much time looking backward. "The complex problems of our technological society of today are being resolved by men who make decisions quickly based on facts and data quickly assembled. Last year's figures are of only historical importance as we set up profit planning against future targets. Professional managers, therefore, look forward...
...game fishermen naturally think big, and they tend to sneer at anything under 20 Ibs. But there is one little fish found in the world's warm waters that sends saltwater anglers into shivering ecstasy and rates up with the monster marlin and tuna. The name is bonefish (Albula vulpes, literally white fox). The biggest ever caught on rod and reel weighed only 19 Ibs. A ten-pounder is worth mounting in the game room, and a 15-pounder is brags forever. Baseball's retired great, Ted Williams, fishes as passionately as he played. He once landed...