Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THOUGH this bill sounds attractive to many on its face, in practice and in the long run it would tend to damage--no improve--the housing situation in Cambridge. The rate of increase of rents might slow but this slackening would not be universal, and it would be at the cost of a gradual dilapidating and stagnation of the City's housing stock...
Newspaper editors normally do not suffer criticism-or critics-gladly. They tend to get even unhappier when the criticism comes from members of their own staffs. Nevertheless, a group of Chicago reporters and photographers have been publicly lambasting their own papers ever since the 1968 Democratic Convention-and getting away with...
...random collision of stray molecules in the atmosphere-is more likely to conform to the prescribed statistical odds with each successive attempt. To Xenakis, this mathematical absolute has profound philosophical meaning: it implies that the changing structure of certain events in life, including the sounds that man creates, may tend ultimately toward a state of stability, or stochos (the Greek word for goal). Hence, he dubs his quest for mathematical orderliness in composition "stochastic" music. Xenakis describes his own music as "masses evolving and erupting, reshaping themselves, succeeding one another and then vanishing"-often in harmony with inflexible mathematical principles...
...Donald Brennan, a founder and former president of the Hudson Institute, a private research center, argues that even a flawed defense "makes an attack much more complicated and would tend to argue against anyone making one." He disagrees with the contention that it is cheaper and easier for the offense to stay ahead of the defense. Defensive technology has reached the point, Brennan maintains, where it requires equal effort for the offense to keep pace. To this, Simon Ramo, vice chairman of the billion-dollar-a-year TRW electronics company, replies that with "one-tenth of the budget...
...people who involve themselves in student government organizations tend, in my very personal opinion, to be vain, egotistical and close-minded. Many of them view participation in student politics as an excellent training ground for future endeavors on a somewhat larger scale. As long as the student organizations were looked upon as worthless extracurricular activities, this was harmless. But now that the members have managed to convince many people that they should play an important role in the University, their own presence is dangerous and must...