Word: tend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relatively impartial studies indicate that all this poses little threat to the networks. Cable appeals to viewers uninterested or only mildly interested in the networks' sitcoms, cop shows and soap operas. Cable fans tend to be older than the Three's Company-Happy Days buffs; Showtime, HBO's biggest rival in pay-cable programming, aims many of its specials at an audience aged 40 to 45. A 1978 survey by Young & Rubicam and A.C. Nielsen Co. found that people whose sets are hooked to cable have highly "fragmented" viewing habits. They switch a lot from channel...
...keeping whites in Rhodesia: A lot of African countries have become banana republics because they tend to be emotional, to Africanize just for the sake of it. We are going to concentrate on a real prosperity for all. Some want us to regard these people who have been here for five generations as strangers because they are white. I would not want to be part of that meaningless independence. Ours will be an evolutionary process in which a black government will have to train itself, not in an emotional way and without causing friction...
...sources will dry up if reporters are forced to, turn over their notes, carries little weight with a majority on the high court-especially when it is balanced against a strong interest like a fair trial. Often jealous of their prerogatives, trial court judges are even less sympathetic. They tend to reject First Amendment claims that might get in the way of the judicial process, like subpoenaing a reporter to testify in a criminal case. Some judges also bar reporters from pretrial hearings in criminal cases, a practice the high court will rule on this spring...
...character says that the metaphor for life is a concentration camp. I do believe that. The real question in life is how one copes in that crisis. I just hope I'm never tested, because I'm very pessimistic about how I would respond. I worry that I tend to moralize, as opposed to being moral...
...recruiter with Ward Howell Associates: "The pay scales of people from lower middle managers up through officers are usually pegged to the salary that the chief collects." Middle managers are paid best in industries that compensate their top managers the most: cosmetics, autos, electronics, data processing, entertainment Such industries tend to be highly profitable and fast growing, and they give relatively more to employees and less in dividends to shareholders than do companies in older, slower-moving but more secure industries, such as commercial banking, utilities, heavy metals and railroads...