Word: tend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government there are refreshingly few bodyguards and black Mercedes limousines; most of the Cabinet ministers drive pickup trucks, since they tend to be farmers. Under Khama's leadership, the country's economic planning is so rigidly controlled that no expenditures for approved projects are permitted until the funds have been raised. Thanks to this careful management, and greatly aided by the country's mining industry, Botswana's economy is roaring along with a growth rate of 25% a year, one of the highest in the world. Per capita income has risen from...
...power. When demonstrations and controversies break out over seemingly esoteric technical questions, the underlying question, as Cornell University's Dorothy Nelkin puts it in a paper on "Science as a Source of Political Conflict," is always the same: "Who should control crucial policy choices?" Such choices, she adds, tend to stay in the hands of those who control "the context of facts and values in which policies are shaped...
...conveniences-swift travel, cheap energy, life-prolonging medication, magical cosmetics-and left itself no choice but to live with the inherent risks it does not so cheerfully accept. A completely risk-free society would be a dead society. In today's increasingly risk-shy atmosphere, the public may tend to exaggerate some of the dangers at hand. Indeed, it may be swinging from too much awe of the "miracles" of science and technology to excessive skepticism about them. In reality, the public has always wanted to lean on the experts- until they have failed, or seemed...
...Western industrial nations want Japan to expand domestic demand and consumption by taking steps to stimulate the economy and lift average Japanese incomes. That would tend to raise imports and reduce exports because Japanese wages and other costs would go up. But such a course risks higher Japanese inflation and lower profits, which the nation's business establishment opposes. Unless the corporate chiefs relent, however, they risk the greater shock of having their access to world markets sharply curtailed. The threat of selective protectionism against Japan is rising, and it worries U.S. officials. It would dangerously damage relations with...
...like but newspapermen despair over. Another sign of the reader's "me" emphasis is a decided preference for local news. Yet, oddly enough, even though only a third of the readership follow national and international news closely, most readers seem to want it there on Page One and tend to resent front-page feature stories. Another third of the audience would read hard news more if it were summarized better, compartmentalized like a newsmagazine, and signposted like a supermarket aisle. The remaining third of the population just want escapism; they are part of a growing number who buy papers...