Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inflation is as typically French as are street demonstrations-and often the two are linked. All French governments tend to grapple vainly with the problem. Premier Paul Ramadier fought a game but losing battle in 1947; Premier Antoine Pinay launched a "Save the Franc" campaign in 1952. Now De Gaulle is struggling against the same hydraheaded enemy: rising prices, up 16% in three years; wage boosts, which only increase the cost spiral; and the fury of farmers...
...published have been two full-length, full-strength books excoriating the merchants of death-warming-over: The High Cost of Dying, by California Professor Ruth Mulvey Harmer (Crowell-Collier Press; $3.95), and The American Way of Death, by British-born Author Jessica Mitford (Simon & Schuster; $4.95). Both of them tend to tear down the mortician's carefully nurtured image as a compassionate, reverent family-friend-in-need and substitute an equally distorted picture of a hypocritical racketeer in black...
...fledgling amahs have a talent for smashing the Wedgwood, the wives of British soldiers and technicians, coming from a land where servants have vanished from all but the stateliest homes, tend to be even clumsier at handling the help. Wailed one sub-lieutenant's wife who recently hired her first maid: "I don't know whether to treat her as a servant or a sister...
City school officials tend to use vo-ed schools as dumping grounds for the dull and the delinquent. The teachers, equipment and training methods are often so far behind the times that, in effect, the schools teach students to be unemployable. Last year a report by the Taconic Foundation concluded that the usefulness of New York City's vocational schools is "extremely questionable." Frank Cassell, personnel director of Inland Steel Co., says that "vocational education in Illinois bears about the same relationship to the real needs of industry as the shovel and the pickax do to the equipment demands...
...force of energy" that swings from love to hate in seconds, they drive teachers batty. Most teachers aim to tame them by putting "your foot on their neck," and by spooning out futilely alien education from pap-filled primers that extol civilized white virtues. As a result, Maori kids tend to hate reading, fall behind in school, and wind up being labeled "stupid." It is just such frustration (or repression), argues Teacher, that leads some Maoris to become neurotics, brawlers, defeatists and alcoholics...