Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like the "well read, well shaped, well disposed widow, early sixties, not half bad in the dusk with the light behind me." She sought a "companionable, educated, professional man of wit and taste," and she probably deserved him. Her self-effacement is fairly rare in personals. The ads tend sometimes to be a little ner- vous and needing, and anxiously hyperbolic. Their rhetoric tends to get overheated and may produce unintended effects. A man's hair stands on end a bit when he encounters "Alarmingly articulate, incorrigibly witty, overeducated but extreme- ly attractive NYC woman." A female reader...
Since natural scientists tend to use a lot more hardware and generate a lot more paperwork than social scientists, there are also two scientific deans serving under Spence. Dean of the Biological Sciences John E. Dowling '57 and Dean of the Applied Sciences Paul C. Martin '53 both have exercised discrete but considerable influence on an assortment of faculty issues. Dowling helped institute the first-ever University-funded undergraduate government. Martin was influential in creating a separate Computer Science concentration and is an important administrator in the computerization program...
...strategy also calls for tapping into a dedicated cadre of conservative youths. Polls show that today's young voters are further to the right than their counterparts ten years ago and thus more receptive to Kemp's paeans to economic growth and an "opportunity" society. Nonetheless, Kemp's speeches tend to be either snoozers about monetary policy or rah-rah pep talks that leave skeptics wondering about his ability to grapple with complex issues. ("How smart is Ronald Reagan?" counters John Buckley, Kemp's press secretary...
What augurs well for banking a la modem is the hearty endorsement of most of its pioneer users, who tend to overlook the minor deficiencies in the systems. Robert McDermott, who runs a construction service company, keeps five different accounts at Chemical Bank, including his money-market and retirement funds. "It makes juggling accounts more manageable," he says. "You can be more daring." Kathryn Dallam, a secretary at IBM, rationalizes the $12 monthly cost of her Pronto service, claiming that home banking saves her $20 a month in stamps, envelopes and transportation costs. And Investment Banker Stodder blames himself...
Over the past few years 70 institutions have popped up around the U.S. to provide needed meeting places for school leaders finishing his week at Harvard, one principal said, "principals tend to be the end of the line: it's nice to knows there are others in the same boat...