Word: tend
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Although it may sound overly jingoistic, the apathy of the American populace is due to its satisfaction with its political system. Because our political spectrum is one of the narrowest in the world, debates tend to focus on very similar options--for example, whether to increase or decrease nuclear weapon funding, rather than whether or not to abolish nuclear weapons entirely. Thus, supporters of one side of an argument don't stand to lose very much in the event of defeat...
...department may cause it to suffer more than most departments from the University's strict tenure policy. There are six tenured professors in the department--none of whom are women--and two have joint appointments with the Graduate School of Design. Since students in the department tend to work very closely with one particular faculty member, if he or she is denied tenure and leaves it is particularly disruptive. "Freshman and sophomore year I studied intensely with one film teacher who then had to leave," says Abrams. "After that I completely changed my course of study to photography...
...says Southern, the college music departments, including Harvard's, still tend to devalue non-European music. "So you really have to be on your own," she says...
UMASS, BOSTON. The University of Massachusetts at Boston has a campus dug out of a harborside dump site and faces ferocious competition for students and faculty; some 55 other nearby colleges and universities, most of them private and including Harvard and M.I.T., tend to gobble up any good academic body...
...need to protect the endowment's purchasing power from market and inflation fluctuations can also guide the way Harvard invests. "Universities live to a certain extent off endowments," says Nicholas Potter, head of investments for J. P. Morgan and Company. "They take a different approach than pension funds and tend to be more conservative because they can't take risks in the long term...