Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thailand, Army Commander General Praphas Charusathien reported that a Communist battalion of 600 men tried to cross the border into his country from Laos and that two more Communist battalions were poised on the border at Nan. The Thais, faced with the growing Communist insurgency threat in the Northeast, tend to over-react somewhat to any burst of Communist military activity in Laos. The battalions may consist of Thai insurgents slipping back home after training in North Viet Nam and trying to cross the border in small units. Whatever they are, however, they constitute a threat that is bound...
...criterion for college performance, and measures it badly." Gross and other critics deplore the pressure on students to score well on the tests. Many schools prep their students on the kind of vocabulary and mathematical skills tested by the exams; high school principals, as well as college publicists, tend to brag about high-average S.A.T. scores as badges of success...
...regard a low score as a guarantee that an application will be rejected. "If we get a boy out of a Harlem slum who scores 490," explains Harvard Admissions Dean Chase Peterson, "we know that compares to the 610 scored by a boy out of Newton." In general, colleges tend to rely much more heavily on high school records, recommendations of teachers and alumni associations, and personal interviews. Schools are far more interested in such traits as motivation, curiosity, self-discipline and creativity than in a student's ability to score well on S.A.T.s. So far, there...
Behind the statistics is an obvious shift in U.S. population. Poor nonwhites have been migrating to the cities. Middle-class whites have moved to the suburbs, leaving behind degenerating medical facilities in deteriorating communities. Under such conditions, families tend to disintegrate and unwanted children get ignored and neglected. The result has been a decline in prenatal and postnatal care in areas where it is needed most...
Separate clubs are formed around the Prime Minister, each Cabinet member, the Diet, the political parties, the police department. Only club members may at tend press conferences and briefings...