Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kaysen spoke of "a class of problems, increasing in importance in terms of special attention," that a market economy will not or cannot regulate successfully. "We will tend to judge the market economy on its inability to solve these problems, rather than on its classical criterion," he said...
Glimp said that a regular review of the Board's practices was essential because of the Board's "lack of any standard operating manual." "Procedures tend to grow up to meet the needs of the day, and then they hang around as precedents," he said. In order to get "a new look at what we're doing," Glimp said he would appoint several professors who have never served on the Ad Board to the new committee...
...enable vastly greater numbers of persons to be alive at one time, and to provide for those living in the more industrial societies a standard of consumption and amenity never before known, and until recently only barely conceived. Almost without exception the first-order effects of newly introduced technology tend to be regarded as "benefits" to mankind. Especially in societies characterized by a high degree of private enterprise, there are very great rewards to be had from such innovation, and there follows a lively competition to maintain the pace of change. Unavoidably, however, change introduces a measure of disequilibrium into...
...also critical of reading courses that use a mechanical pacer, as students tend to revert to previous reading speeds once the pacer is not there to help them. When reading dynamically, the reader's hand is used as a pacer. Improvement by typical graduates In words per minute.** BOSTON AND PROVIDENCE Name Occupation Easy Beg. Easy End. Dif. Beg. Dif. End. Ackley, Frederick, Minister 467 1491 317 1112 Barry, Louise, Housewife 406 1392 433 1240 Bellin, Steven, Student 404 1015 406 2112 Cagle, Ralph, Graduate Student 672 1500 464 1584 Cembrola, Joe, Student 336 1120 257 900 Demers, Paula, Student...
...problem as that of many Negro kids taken out of slums and put here. They know that Harvard thinks a lot of them, bringing them here and all. But then they find that Harvard doesn't treat them very well. It just dumps them and leaves them alone. They tend to doubt how good they are when they run into a bunch of white kids who expect success and know exactly how to get along in this place which they don't. Harvard doesn't give them the continuing support to get by that their acceptance led them to expect...