Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Their job is impossible, and they tend to be ill-equipped and undertrained by the people who hire them," Ackermann says...
...extensive postwar literature of espionage and double agentry, fact and fiction tend to blur. Was Magnus Pym the name of John le Carre's perfect spy? Or was it Guy Burgess? Pym and Burgess, Donald Maclean and Toby Esterhase -- characters from the shadow world of MI6 and the KGB -- seem equally real, equally fanciful...
Students' use of drugs has devastated the American school system, Doyle said. But he added that when "drugs tend to rise, then social revulsion causes their use to decline...
...direction of this play is as schizophrenic as the cast's performance. Patrick Gurian and Jeff Hass both try to retain the Victorian sparkle of the comedy by injecting contemporary and meta-dramatic references. Such hi-jinks, however, are sparse and tend to be more distracting than anything else, especially after the actors have kicked into high gear...
They are grade school students, for the most part, and they are visiting Harvard's Arnold Arboretum to compare its lush greenery with the miniature plots they tend in their schoolyards...