Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...husband to a mother's jealousy of a nanny's close relationship with her child. Bunge tells students, "You are a resource person like an accountant or an attorney. You have to present your information in a subtle way." Yet most schools teach some assertiveness training. "Families tend to overburden nannies," says Larry Uno, of the California Nannie College in Sacramento. "We teach them...
Liberal Justice William Brennan was not reassured. He accused the majority of delivering a "potentially crippling blow to Miranda and . . . the rights of persons accused of crime." Georgetown Law Professor William Greenhalgh sympathized with the dissenters, noting that despite O'Connor's bright-line endorsement, "exceptions like this tend to dim that line for police in the field." The practical impact may not be large, said other observers, but the new ruling is another sign that the conservative members of the court intend to keep on whittling...
Whether or not they talk about it, foos maniacs agree that a lot of the game is mental. "There's a lot of pysch in it," says Harrington Lin agrees. "Foosball enthusiasts tend to believe that they are the best players anywhere. Whenever you play foosball you should make certain to be as arrogant as possible when you get a goal...
...ideal world, teaching and research should be interdependent. Undergraduates bring a new perspective and fresh insights into problems being examined by more experienced scholars, who tend to be set in their ways. On the other hand, research should allow professors to convey the latest discoveries to an audience that will soon be faced with the task of advancing the field themselves...
...have deteriorated to the point of public bickering. The bombing of a bar in an Athens suburb two weeks ago, in which more than 30 Americans, many from a nearby military base, were injured, prompted Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger to comment, "This is one of those things you tend to get when all this anti-American sentiment is stirred up." A Greek government spokesman fired back, "It is rather Mr. Weinberger who should be condemned for an anti- Greek campaign." Athens police still do not know whether the bomb was tossed into the crowded bar by terrorists...