Word: tend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rights in order to protect our rights. The University as an investor has the right to decide which corporations it wants to invest in on any grounds it deems appropriate. And yet, Bok argues that Harvard's decision to divest of its South African holdings would tend "to undermine the willingness of outside groups to respect the academic freedom of the University." Every consumer has the right to decide which products to buy and which not to buy and yet Bok believes that by exercising this right, Harvard will induce outsiders to "turn the screw" on the University...
...because it's not a loan and it is an opportunity for the students to get real work experience. They can work in areas of their vocational interest." Both Gibson and Maguire note that students have not yet taken full advantage of work possibilities in the community, since they tend to work in the University, but both hope to expand community employment next year...
...built by a whaling captain in 1835, at the height of the island's seafaring prosperity. Its present owners seem comfortable there, and with each other. Tall, handsome and merry of heart, Mimi is a good conversational match for Baker, and people who know the pair well tend to say "they" when talking of them, rather than...
...purpose villain at the very moment when it should be stimulated to its greatest exertions. Communications across the barriers of attitude become difficult. Too many Americans cherish a doctrinaire repugnance for the free market. On the other side, too many business leaders and conservative ideologues, often oblivious to criticism, tend to talk and listen only to members of their own club. Meantime, the separate tribes of special interests fiercely pursue their own advantage, increasingly unwilling to compromise with one another...
OTHER, better, newspapers don't really provide happy mediums between hustle and heart attacks, either, though. At the Washington Post, news reporters--especially on cityside--constantly battle in a cutthroat competition to get their stories on the front page, and consequently tend to go for the quickie scandal rather than the drawn-out drudgery of research into government processes and problems. At The New York Times, the game is total, Machiavellian office politics. Executive editor Abe Rosenthal sits like Jehovah on his throne, flashing thunderbolts from his fingertips at any lower-echelon staffer who incurs his disfavor. Former Crimson president...