Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, the CCA is faced with increasingly hostile attacks from Cambridge realtors, who say that rent control policies actually force up city rent levels, and urge residents to vote for one of the Independent candidates. The Independents, who form a looser coalition, are generally more conservative and tend to have deeper roots in city neighborhoods...
Facts, like pictures, tend to speak for themselves. Only 50 or so people attended the teach-in; it was well-advertised, and the combined membership of the Democratic and Republican Clubs runs into the triple digits...
Thanks to inertia, things in motion tend to stay in motion. Take a soccer ball--once it's kicked along an obstacle-free trajectory toward an open net, not even Isaac Newton should be able to stop...
...theory seems at first to be blatantly obvious. It holds that people tend to save when they are young to create a nest egg for their old age. Basic though it may be, that notion ranks among the most powerful and widely used concepts in modern economics. It was also the work for which M.I.T.'s Franco Modigliani, 67, the theory's principal author, was named the 1985 Nobel laureate in economic science. "With many people, the Nobel Prize is a question of if," said Paul Samuelson, an M.I.T. colleague and the 1970 economics laureate. "With Franco, it was only...
Once in college, such athletes, many with token diplomas from substandard high schools, tend to be cosseted along in such courses as Food 1, Driver Education and Beginning Golf (which Williams reportedly flunked at Tulane). With that kind of schedule, an athlete may graduate, but he is prepared to do little more than play ball. Even at that, the odds against his cracking into professional sports are very poor (77 to 1 for basketball, 100 to 1 for football), and the few who do make it can count on an average playing career of no more than four years...