Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assess consequences; we cannot know what is at stake, because science carves out new territory faster than we can discover the hidden problems. Consequently, the issues force the public to take extreme sides, to condemn or condone. In the political arena, the policy makers, also at a loss, tend either to let the new technology run wild, or cripple it with regulations and money restrictions...
...Voters tend to elect Democratic Congressmen to get them goodies and Republican Presidents to protect them from other people's Democratic Congressmen...
...risk of overlooking the playwright's suggestion of religious redemption and emerging frustrated by the callous and fatalistic character nature seems to take. Moreover, depending upon the actors, you run the additional risk of getting depressed, and getting depressed slowly. Consequently, producers betting on a sure fire success tend to be wary of a Strindberg production...
...troubles have increased, regulators have begun cracking down harder. They are beginning to expect the unexpected. Says James Boland, deputy comptroller of the currency: "It's always the dog you don't see that bites you. We're not out of trouble yet because banks always tend to lag behind the economy." The comptroller's office is now examining the books of large banks two or three times a year, instead of just once. As a further incentive for prudence, the FDlC's Isaac has proposed that the premiums banks pay to the agency...
...problem is that hot money knows no loyalty. At the first hint of trouble, rumored or real, these depositors tend to yank their funds. Says William Ogden, who was installed by Government regulators in July as chairman of Continental Illinois: "A modern run on a bank doesn't show up in lines at the teller windows, but in an increasing erosion of its capacity to purchase large blocks of funds in money markets." To ward off such electronic panics, many banks have tried to widen their deposit base to include a larger number of savers and to court better...