Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some evidence suggests that lower-cost lawyers tend to spend less time on a case, but a study published in 1979 in the American Bar Foundation Research Journal found that the quality of work at high-volume, heavily advertised firms was as good as, and sometimes better than, that of conventional firms...
...handy for Jones' research projects, which he and his staff conduct with no particular goal. "If I knew what I was going to discover, I wouldn't do it," huffs Jones. "Very little in life happens according to plan." But with his growing fortune, Jones has plans that tend to happen...
Black students in the 1960s and 1970s did tend to isolate themselves in ethnic organizations, says Shaw. But, he adds, Black students' attitudes have changed in the wake of public school desegregation...
...link what I am talking about with musical themes," says Cox. "Students associate what I am saying with some other dimension of the brain," Cox adds, explaining that students tend to remember facts by association. "I play the theme again, as students come into the classroom, and it gets them remembering...
...large differences in the performance of various ethnic groups." In 1983, for instance, 570 Blacks had combined SAT scores above 1200, compared to 60,400 whites--numbers which are also disproportionate to the numbers of the groups taking the test. More troubling, according to his research, standardized test scores tend to overpredict the academic performance of Blacks at the right tail...