Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...involvement with the fire prank incident at Leverett House and its subsequent presentation to the Ad Board, I have come to be seriously disillusioned with the disciplinary system at Harvard. The Ad Board appears to be a mockery of justice in a number of ways, and its findings tend to be extremely harsh and arbitrary, much more so than at other schools...
...characters tend to get frustrated with bureaucracy and take the law into their own hands. But if voters make Clint Eastwood's day on April 8, he will be the top bureaucrat handling the law in the picturesque California hamlet of Carmel-by-the-Sea (pop. 4,700). Last week, listing his profession as director-producer, Eastwood, 55, filed a petition to run for mayor. Complaining that the incumbent was ineffectual, the new candidate wrote, "We need leadership, experience and some old-fashioned logic to get back on the track." He pledged to deal with such problems as parking, tourism...
...Consumer Product Safety Commission, hospital emergency rooms in 1984 treated people for 18,000 injuries related to exercise equipment. Almost half the mishaps occurred at home. In addition to the danger of injury, there is the risk of wasting money on unneeded glitz or extras. Women, in particular, tend to be unfamiliar with exercise devices. "If I say dipping station to women, they haven't a clue as to what that is," says Marilyn Mitchell, a fitness specialist in the Washington area. (It is a set of parallel bars used to build upper-body strength.) Sometimes their decisions seem dictated...
Most freshmen try out for all the groups and see what they make, while upperclassmen tend to already know people in certain groups and have a preference, say members of most groups. Since the Opportunes' main audition is in the fall while the Dins' and Kroks' are in the spring, the Opportunes tend to draw more freshmen, says Opportune Carole I. Chervin...
...major difference in the groups is the type of the type of music they sing. While the Pitchesand Kroks tend to do swing, blues, '20s, '30s, and'50s, according to members, Johnson said theOpportunes do "Motown, jazzy, upbeat music...