Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anniversary year, the 25th, 35th, and 50th reunion classes not only hand over more donations than usual, but also tend to give larger gifts, says Reardon. "People who have a good time at the reunion pay it back significantly," says Briefer. "It wouldn't be worthwhile to run reunions if that weren't the case...
...action movies tend toward the abstract. Once the moviemakers establish a persuasive motive for one set of characters to spend some time and much energy chasing another set of characters around, the truth (or falsity) of these pictures must be looked for in the staging and cutting of the subsequent shoot-outs and chases. In judging those, the brain gratefully surrenders to the viscera. In a sense, these films, so dependent for their success on mastery of movie technique, represent one of cinema's purest forms. And all action movies may aspire to be judged not on the basis...
...Despite the earnest efforts of clergy and religious educators in both the Jewish and Christian traditions to suggest otherwise, the opinion subsists, fed, no doubt on the remnants of a preadolescent identification of the Divinity with one's own parents. In consequence, discussions that mix religion and sexual values tend to be particularly loaded...
...year-olds told the TIME Yankelovich poll that they are Democrats and 24% said they are Republicans, 38% called themselves independents. "The Baby Boomer vote is never going to be in either party's hip pocket," says Republican Political Consultant Lee Atwater. Their political views tend to be a mix: they are conservative on economic matters and distrustful of Big Government. Yet they are liberal on social issues like women's rights and abortion, and wary of the moral preachments of the New Right. Nor has the generation that marched for civil rights entirely lost its zeal for racial equality...
...credit for Danieli's success goes to the hands-on management style of Cecilia Danieli, who is equally comfortable discussing the fine art of steelmaking with her technicians or negotiating deals with customers. Says W.J. Robertshaw, spokesman for Davy McKee, a British builder of steel mills: "We tend to respect them very much as a power in the land. Danieli is a very resourceful Italian company...