Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Horses. In fact, many professional military men-particularly in the Air Force-insist that specialized military requirements demand specialized space technology. The civilian officials and scientists of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are shooting for the moon, and they tend to shrug off the military aspects of space. In contrast to the moonshooters, the Air Force foresees the need for a manned spacecraft, rugged and simple in design, that will be ready to go any time in any weather, reach orbit, maneuver in space, and return to earth as a matter of combat routine...
Professor Scott Elledge ruthlessly ripped apart the teachers' compositions-the first creative writing for some of them since adolescence. "Full of hazy thought," he snapped. "This kind of rhetoric we don't need-it's unliterary." The teachers, who tend to see correcting essays as sim ple proofreading rather than criticism of meaning, giggled nervously, or sat in stunned embarrassment...
Spending more than half of this year's federal-university research outlay, these centers tend to siphon scientists away from teaching, but they also get research done-and perhaps in its proper place...
...everyone wants mergers. Competing managements resist them. The unions, fearing a wholesale loss of jobs, are dead set against them. Their objections have deeply influenced policies of the ICC and the Civil Aeronautics Board, which tend to approve mergers only if one of the partners is headed for bankruptcy. Just how vigorous the quarrel between unions and railroad management can be was shown last week, when the railroads proposed to lay off 40,000 firemen who, they say, are unnecessary aboard diesel locomotives. The five railroad brotherhoods countered by threatening to call a paralyzing nationwide strike. At week...
...delegates from 102 countries gathered for a World Conference of the Seventh-day Adventists in San Francisco last week, there was a note of gentle irony in their choice of one of their meeting places−the Cow Palace. Vegetarians by conviction, almost all Adventists abstain from meat. They tend to abstain from alcohol, nicotine, coffee, tea, cosmetics, jewelry, dancing, card playing, movies, the theater, and "sensational" TV shows...