Word: tend
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...contras are theoretically united under an umbrella organization called the United Nicaraguan Opposition, which was pulled together with U.S. help in 1985. In fact they are divided among themselves. Their political leaders tend to be former foes of the Somoza regime who fell out with the Sandinistas when the revolution was "betrayed"; many of the top military field commanders, on the other hand, served in Somoza's National Guard. Still, the contra forces are "too large and have too much support inside the country to be dismissed simply as a tool of the CIA," writes Leiken...
Because democracies don't tend to ally together, the U.S. tends to lose in most U.N. votes, said Vernon A. Walters, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Besides, said Walters, free countries only comprise one-third...
...rebels themselves tend to be untrained and uneducated peasants. "The FDN," says Robert Leiken, a Latin American expert from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, "has shown little interest in recruiting educated, urban cadres, who tend to have political differences with the FDN leadership." According to the Administration report, contra fighters often lack the skill to read maps, maintain technical equipment or carry out tactical maneuvers...
...Teams tend to concentrate on me," Fusco says. "So if I get the puck to Smitty, he's going to score...
...Meitner's their big scorer," Harvard defenseman Jerry Pawloski says. "You really look out for a guy like that. But you can't look out for him all the time. It's the guys you don't look out for that tend to score...