Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course there are those things. No one denies that." Dobrynin sugared the pill he wanted Gromyko to swallow. "But it seems to me that Soviet correspondents tend to overemphasize that side of things. They create a mistaken impression of the situation here. You know, when I go home to Moscow, people ask me about America as though they thought it was about to fall apart." He laughed loudly. "Our people should think more realistically. They ought to have more accurate information, not just the exaggerations of hack writers...
...schools. Others compensate for gaps in the conventional curriculum. General Electric's manager of management education, James Baughman, for one, says, "There is vast illiteracy on business-school faculties" in both the mechanics of advanced technology and its management implications. Says a Texas Instruments executive: "As technology changes, universities tend to lag one to three years behind what's happening in the workplace...
Ginsberg: An enormous amount. Many word sociologists like McClure and Pound say that when words get separated from direct conversation when they are just on the page without the physical component of sound, then the head gets cut off from the bod. And people will tend to go into generalizations and hyper-abstraction of the language. Words have to refer to something real, and when we begin to take words as having eternal abstract essence without any physical reference, the human content is removed from the language. As Pound points out, when the words in poetry get cut off from...
...example, require a minimum number of intra group associations to ensure a comfortable Harvard experience Nearly every GISA and BSA leader will tell you that to randomly assign and spread gay and Black students across campus would disastrosuly affect their mutual support system. Also groups stereotypes to Harvard tend not to remain in place. Mather House seems to be replacing Adams House as the most popular residence for says players flock to Leverett as if it were Kirkland. Soon the football captain may come from Lowell House, and then Lowell might become a very different place itself...
Instead, Houses tend to acquire a social focal point, causing students on the periphery to feel alienated in their own Houses which was originally designed to provide a familial center of identification. Opponents to the random or modified random system say group identification in Houses would be destroyed by such a change. Yet they fail to realize that while people can always find some friends in the 350-or-more-person Houses,' smaller groups of people often feel shoved to the outer parameters of the social milieu dominated by a strong central group on which the reputation is founded...