Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this audience at Landmark College in Putney, Vt., survival with any sense of self-esteem has been a lifelong vexation. The students are dyslectics, born with a condition that limits their ability to process received information into language. They tend to reverse numbers and letters (write w-a-s as s-a-w) and leave out whole phrases. Although they may understand a complex passage read aloud to them, they cannot read it themselves or write down what they know about it. Dyslectics--an estimated 10% to 12% of the U.S. population--often do not realize what is the matter...
...sure, many U.S. travelers tend to shrug at the terrorism panic. "If you're going to run scared, you may as well shut yourself in the bathroom and have someone feed you through the door," says Paul Barton, an Atlanta clothing sales executive. Barton visited Rome with his wife Joan last week to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary...
...programs tend to assume the personality of the leading person, so Citystep will be a different program without Sabrina's spirit and energy," she says. But I am optimistic that the program's quality will be the same...
...ANYTHING interesting has ever happened at Harvard, it seems to have been systematically excised from this bland account. Historians generally tend to focus on the significance of periods of upheaval, but these essays emphasize the placid progress of an educational institution over a shifting population of faceless students and teachers. Student riots are glossed over or ignored. Wartime turbulence is omitted. Conspicuously absent is any mention of the most recent Harvard crisis of student demonstrations in the '60s. Clearly, such a short book cannot include all significant events in the University's formation. Yet the lack of any detailed examination...
Anorexics tend to control their emotions in group therapy. Honnet warns that the deeper the anorexic or bulimic gets enmeshed in her problem, the harder it is to get out. "The price is much too high...