Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...upset because I know my husband, I know what he knows and how he works best. Intellectually, people tend to underestimate him. After the debate I talked to Mike (Deaver, deputy White House chief of staff). He's my oldest friend, and I'm sure that he knows that whatever I say, I say it with all good intentions. I just said I thought what they did in the preparation was all wrong, and let's not have it happen again...
What the nation is awakening to is the fact that First Ladies know Presidents better, and sometimes influence them more than anyone else. As pressures build and critics carp, the President and his wife tend to grow closer. The intriguing thing is that their personal chemistry is virtually unknown to outsiders. A First Lady's warm embrace, cold stare or worried brow can affect her husband's mind and mood, and maybe even shake nations...
...sense I'm stepping away from it all," he says. "Even guys in western Canada tend to go to west schools, where school is secondary to hockey. At Harvard, academics are number...
...through in hopes that they could bring back what they had lost," says Carol Stack, professor of public policy at Duke University. "People today are performing their own version of the ghost dance, only it's not called a ghost dance any more. It's called being patriotic." Americans tend to deny that their own moods matter. Still, it is collective psychology--collec tive mood--that drives the economy up and down, and not the other way around...
...breed can be smug and shallow. The younger yuppies tend to look at education and the future in terms of the dollar: the "trade school" approach to learning. The idea of winning buzzes always in their minds. It is at them that Michelob Light aims its ad with the slogan: "Who said you can't have it all?" The yuppies are Ueberroth's natural constituency...