Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another fault that tends to tilt the index upward is its failure to list new products quickly enough. New products generally come out at a fairly high price (as color television did), later drop in cost when the market expands and competitors enter the field. The index usually does not record new products until their prices level off, and then possibly rise a bit as a result of increasing public demand. If new products were entered earlier, the argument goes, they would better reflect the eventual drop in prices, tend to pull the whole index average downward. Delaying their listing...
...times we tend to forget the purpose the original 13 banded together for-to stop permanently outside aggression. Why couldn't we offer the Cuban people statehood? This would be much, much more than K. could offer them...
...principle of competitive emulation teaches that when two competitors engage in protracted struggle each tends to adopt the other's most successful "tactics" (to use the President's word). And to the extent that the struggle permeates their domestic situations, they also tend to adopt similar "institutions...
Most gospel singers tend to hitch their style to one type of gospel belting. There's hard gospel," a heavily syncopated uptempo mode that pounds along like a steam locomotive. There's "sweet gospel " the gentler, lilting expression that finds its balm in folk dirges such as Steal Away to Jesus or Go Down Moses. Then there's "hallelujah shout," which can set ginmill customers or Southern Baptist congregations to clapping and chanting at the first blaring note...
Seeing the new façade, most architects and others who were critical of the change tend to accept it peaceably. The new marble, plus the creamy paint on the dome, undoubtedly are an improvement over the flaked-sandstone look. And the forward shift of the front is so comparatively slight that visitors hardly note a significant change in the relationship of dome and wall...