Word: tend
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Unlike the Prohibitionists of an earlier age, the new moderates are not on a single-minded moral crusade; they are simply getting older and busier. People tend to drink differently as they age, and the 76 million baby boomers, whose sheer numbers can turn a whim into a trend, are maturing. There is not much time for drinking in two-income households and little sympathy for hangovers. "I'm pushing 35, and I'm certainly drinking less," says Angie Levin, an Atlanta office worker. "In college, binges were pretty common, but as people get older, they have children and other...
...feeling pretty optimistic" about playing tomorrow. DiCesare says now "UHS diagnosed it as a less ligament. I tend to think it's less serious than that...
...teenagers, not just minority youths, tend to have more trouble than adults finding work. But black and Hispanic youngsters have the worst trouble of all. Many lack the reading and speaking skills to handle today's service- industry jobs or the connections to find them. Even geography has become a barrier. Reason: inner-city neighborhoods offer relatively few openings compared with the suburbs, where jobs have been sprouting like dandelions. Frustration has caused a lot of minority youngsters to quit looking. Says Marcia Saunders, director of the Dade County, Fla., affirmative action program: "There's a tremendous number of kids...
...little value on her work. Their children and the household tasks remained her burden. Says Medvene: "She got the message. She felt belittled and demeaned." Only after the couple went into therapy did the husband acknowledge that his wife had valid appointments of her own. He now helps tend their children and takes duty leave to wait for the plumber...
Unequivocal devotion to the system is to be found mainly, it seems, among the quiet, leathery revolutionaries who fought the war and who tend not to talk much about the travails that hardened their commitment. Some of their relatives share that strength. At Cu Chi, where entire families once lived in a Viet Cong-built labyrinth of tunnels that snaked along for more than 100 miles beneath U.S. bases, Nguyen Thi Tu, 60, sells fruit to visitors. "I feel better than before," says the bony woman. "We have complete freedom. We can work anywhere. We are not afraid of anything...