Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...between the results and the rhetoric of the conference was ascribed by one Western analyst in Peking to Deng's "practice of not overwinning." While Deng enjoys strong support at the top levels of the party hierarchy, many lower-ranking officials, who have no stake in the reform programs, tend to favor the Chen Yun approach. Thus Chen's speech may have been sanctioned as a sort of minority dissent...
...adults, slothful ways are compounded by other unhealthy habits. More than 30% of the population smoke; about the same number admit to sometimes drinking too much. In addition, says Skinner, "people tend to overestimate what they do and underestimate what they eat." Many fool themselves in other ways, too. Of 2,256 middle- to top-level executives studied by the University of Michigan/Ann Arbor's Fitness Research Center, only 47% reported that they exercised regularly. But 91% claimed they were in good or excellent shape. Those who try to take up working out often fail. If they do not have...
Brink attributed the dominance of men in scientific fields to deep-seated social factors. Although studies have shown that males and females have equal aptitudes in math and science at the elementary school level, females tend to shy away from sciences and related studies because they are given less encouragement in those directions...
...graduate level, men tend to exclude their female counterparts from social meetings, and women act with less self-confidence, she said...
...SURPRISING that the characters in Anne Tyler's latest family portrait, The Accidental Tourist, suffer from "geographic dyslexia." Like her usual cast of eccentric homebodies, members of the Leary family tend to become disoriented anytime they stray too far from the familiar hearth. Regardless of how tempting the escape, something--guilt, injury, an Oedipal chord, the boys eating too much glop for breakfast--inevitably draws them back to the comfort and complacency of home, sweet home...