Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...changes, too many wars, to feel much like flag wavin' or flag burnin'. One thing I come to know is that bein' alone makes you 'preciate the help of others when you need them, and makes you 'preciate the lonesomeness of others too, when they need you. Maybe Americans tend to be generous because they recognize lonesomeness in everybody, and through that lonesomeness they've learned that folks are pretty much worth the same, that we're all in the same boat. At sundown I'll haul the raft to a lake in the middle of some town, and watch...
Reagan's personal authenticity is one of his greatest strengths, one reason why people tend to trust him even if they utterly disagree with his principles. Better, perhaps, to deal with a man one trusts than to be fooled and manipulated for the best of ends. Reagan is manifestly a man at home in his own skin, in contrast to, say, Richard Nixon, in whom dark civil wars always seemed to be raging...
With such difficult problems facing the larger region, Shultz chose an itinerary that was likely to accentuate the positive side of U.S. dealings in the Pacific rim. He selected allies who tend to be receptive to his "businessman's diplomacy," and whose policies reflect his favorite themes: rising democracy, a comeback for capitalism and free trade. Thus the Secretary flew first to Hong Kong, a bastion of free enterprise on the tip of China, and ended his trip with a stopover in Palau, a U.S. territory in the South Pacific that voted in February to become semi-independent while granting...
...back when he publicly denounced his own Medicaid administrators for paying $12,000 a month to keep 3-year-old Katie Beckett in a hospital but refusing to pay the mere $2,000 it would have cost for her to live at home. When Presidents intervene, of course, bureaucrats tend to see reason. Katie was duly sent home, and a new committee was named to check on the several dozen other Katies caught in similar red- tape tangles...
Paying Up. The bride's mother and father shelled out for the Zhivago wingding, but--fretful parents everywhere, take heart--such a practice has become modified of late, especially as couples getting married tend to be a little older and already established. Says Rita Bloom Smith, president of a wedding consultancy firm in Kensington, Md.: "No woman today past 25 is going to let < someone else run that show." Vincent Landano, 28, who married Maria Castellano, 24, in Brooklyn on May 31, dug into his own pocket to pay for the proceedings--including a vase of swimming goldfish to decorate...