Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would be at least 45 to 90 days after a drop in the cost of crude before the price of such consumer products as gasoline and heating fuel would be affected. Refiners tend to delay passing along the savings to customers until competitive pressure forces them to do so. Yet gasoline prices, which currently average $1.21 per gal. in the U.S. compared with a peak of $1.42 in March 1981, could fall about 2 1/2 cents for every $1 decline in crude prices. The response of heating-fuel prices to an oil-price drop depends partly on the weather...
Among the younger designers, jokes tend to be about the future, but a future as it was conceived in a more hopeful past. It is a neat trick. This strain of the new-wave sensibility is an ironic mixture of nostalgia and contempt, simultaneously mock futurist and mock historicist. The allusions are to old television and B movies. At the Whitney, Dakota Jackson's UFO-shaped Saturn stool (1976) and R.M. Fischer's enormous, intimidating Max lamp (1983) are like fakey props from 1950s science-fiction films. Burton's saw-toothed aluminum chair (1980-81) seems to be a throne...
AIDS, however, has brought back the ogre of death by disease, and even by epidemic, in a guise perhaps more frightening than any in the 20th century. Yet, having seen so many giants conquered, we seem to have lost our fear of new diseases. We tend to think that every problem can eventually be solved given enough time and money. In light of this ingrained optimism, it would seem pointlessly harsh to isolate AIDS victims or in any way restrict their freedom...
...total home-video business, according to some industry estimates. Moreover, with their relatively low prices (typically between $10 and $40), children's tapes are usually bought rather than rented. Unlike adults, who generally view a movie only once and return it to the store, children tend to watch their favorites over and over again...
Nelson will tend the blood in a locker on the shuttle and keep it at normal blood bank temperature, while a controlled sample will be isolated at the same temperature on earth. Sutherland said that "the temperature should not vary more than 2 degrees," and if it does "then Nelson will not have done his job right...