Word: tend
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...report, the Committee offers a model for language instruction "to which courses could be adapted at Harvard." The "ideal course" would especially emphasize fundamental knowledge of a foreign language, including its phonetic and grammatical structures. The course would tend to de-emphasize immediate conversational instruction, especially in section meetings...
First step is the unreturned phone call. But it never helps much, for Weedees tend toward tenacity, and even a prolonged series of never-answered messages can produce a series of personal notes and even registered letters or telegrams...
...doing business, but many-particularly the British, who are investing heavily in U.S. real estate-complain of the tangle of U.S. laws and of the need to have a battery of high-priced lawyers always on hand to interpret them. Snorted an exasperated Englishman: "In England, lawyers tend to be kept in their proper place as advisers." It may surprise U.S. businessmen, but foreign companies make few complaints about U.S. labor. In fact, Takuji Ohshimo, executive director of the Japanese-owned Alaska Lumber & Pulp Co., finds negotiating with U.S. unions a relief. "Their demands are strictly economic," he says. "This...
...Masters may be quite correct about the effect girls have on life in the Houses, but their attitude is self-confirming; girls tend to be conservative and feminine if they feel conflicting demands are made. This is statistically demonstrable, but it is also intuitively evident: a girl who thinks people consider her less intelligent than men will incline to be less intellectual, particularly when men are about...
...brief, their research indicates that certain personality traits which ordinarily would not cause a person to commit illegal acts may be made criminogenic by environmental situations. Not all individuals respond the same way to any given set of conditions, but certain conditions do tend to develop certain personality traits...