Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Local school administrators tend to agree with Byerly Hall. "Harvard's been doing us pretty well," said Henry Lucas, an assistant principal at Rindge and Latin. Every year, the Cambridge public schools send between six and 12 students to Harvard out of a typical class of 510 students, he added...
While some students naturally prefer to travel beyond Cambridge's borders for college, other local graduates tend "to hold Harvard in awe," preventing many students from considering Harvard as a possible four-year home, said Jarvis, the university's chief liaison to Boston area schools...
When the big lobbying guns line up on opposite sides of an issue, they tend to cancel each other out. Threatened with a takeover by Mobil Oil in 1981, Marathon Oil hired Tommy Boggs' firm to push a congressional bill that would block the merger. The firm managed to get the bill through the House by using a little-known procedural rule at a late-night session. In the Senate, however, Mobil--represented by former Carter Aide Stuart Eizenstat--was able to stop the bill when Senator Howell Heflin of Alabama blocked consideration on the Senate floor. Heflin...
Adolescents who have personality traits that parents love--obedience, responsibility and self-confidence--tend to shun drugs through high school and adulthood, while rebellious, pessimistic youths often grow up to smoke, drink and use illegal substances, according to a 12-year study...
Those youngsters who shun alcohol, cigarettes and drugs through their early 20s tend to be law-abiding, self-sufficient and ambitious. They also like school and feel valued by their peers, teachers and other people...