Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anniversary for Harvard, but notfor the rest of the nation," says Newsweek BostonBureau Chief Mark Starr. "People in Boston tend tolose their perspective, and we didn't find anycompelling reason to do [a big story...
Lauren avoids the frenetic night life often associated with his industry. "I don't live in that world of 'Daaahling!' I can't stand it," Lauren says. Instead he tends his ranch, drives a collection of antique race cars, and jogs three or four miles each morning. Lauren's cultural interests tend to mirror his professional instincts. Last year he spent a reported $350,000 to sponsor an acclaimed historical exposition of riding tack and apparel, called "Man and the Horse," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Though he professes to be nonpolitical, Lauren openly supported Democratic Hopeful Gary Hart...
...egos, Lauren has long enjoyed a reputation for relative humility, but that could be changing. During the past year "he has got a little bit of a big | head," says one old friend. Insists Lauren: "I am not aloof. I am very basic." His descriptions of his work, however, tend to be heavily larded with words like integrity, elegance, traditional and American...
...controversial is the role of the air-traffic control system, which is still operating with 2,000 fewer fully qualified controllers than it had before President Reagan ordered the firing of 11,438 striking controllers in 1981. Since many of the replacements are relatively inexperienced, they protectively, and prudently, tend to space out aircraft even beyond the recently tightened requirements, slowing movement. "The skies aren't crowded," insists William B. Cotton, manager of United's air-traffic system. "It's the air-traffic-control system that's crowded." The strain was compounded last week when...
...hardly had the assurances of goodwill been exchanged when another bitterly divisive issue surfaced that helped to explain why U.S. views of Mexico, as shown in the results of a Yankelovich, Clancy, Shulman poll taken for TIME, tend to be so critical. One day after the presidential meeting, Washington officials reported that Victor Cortez Jr., 34, a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent, had been kidnaped in Guadalajara and brutally tortured by Mexican state officials before being released. An incensed Attorney General Edwin Meese responded to the news of the Cortez detention in a television interview by serving notice that...