Word: tend
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...there, it's difficult for them to leave. Christopher Blanchard, who spent two years on the street and now works for the Coalition for the Homeless, says "Many street people feel they are subject to forces beyond their control." Locked in a cycle of despair and helplessness, they tend to rationalize their position, trying to convince themselves and others that they "want to be on the street...
According to Senator Howell Heflin (D-Ala.), the Senate takes "a break whenever somebody has a fundraiser." With fundraising taking on such importance, special interest funds tend to distort the political system. PACs favor incumbents, with 72 percent of their contributions going to those already in office. This way, PACs can obtain more influence per dollar, wasting little on those who are not "safe" contenders for office. Unfortunately, with the average House seat costing $500,000 and a six-year lease on a chair in the Senate Chamber running its occupant around $3 million, challengers, receiving few PAC funds, cannot...
Warnings about debts and deficits tend to go ignored as long as things seem prosperous, but there have been signs of increasing worry lately. Just paying the interest on the national debt now takes $143 billion, much of it going to foreign banks that can call in their loans whenever they begin to mistrust the dollar. Worriers also fret that the trade deficit has climbed to a scary $145 billion or so annually. Meaning that it is now the U.S., not Mexico or Brazil, that is the world's biggest debtor nation. And banks keep crumbling (120 of them went...
Perhaps the most intense experiences are those of the unofficial section leaders, who tend to approach the problems at hand through markedly different strategies from one another. "Some leaders pass out agendas," while others take a less structured role, says second year K-Schooler Steven Nicholas. "It is a chance for class members to experiment with different roles of a leader...
Candidates for the board of directors are chosen after the nominating committee solicits sugestions from about 700 alumni who have been active members of the association, said Nancy O. Sandler, the HAA's associate for human resources. Nominees tend to be alumni who previously have served on other alumni committees...