Word: tend
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From the outset, the premise of Glenn's campaign has seemed questionable. He pitches himself as a moderate appealing to "the constituency of the whole." Yet primaries tend to be dominated by ideological activists, not middle-of-the-roaders. Glenn and company also staked too much on the magic of his astronautical fame. "They really believed they could transfer the aura of celebrity into a political gain," says a politician from Glenn's home state. "It is now clear they can't do that." Americans are indeed eager to see Hero Glenn, but once the crowds gather...
...vivid rhetoric of his staff-written speeches. His off-the-cuff remarks are rote and usually filled with military acronyms, numbing statistics and gawky phrases like "Nobel laureate-type research." He rarely seems loose in public, let alone passionate. Nor is it just a matter of style: his ideas tend to be fuzzy when they are not unimaginative. "Voters are looking for candidates with some vision of what this country can be," says Chicago's Lawrence Walsh, a media consultant...
...even though the professor reduced the requested fee to $150,000, which he says covers the work of three lawyers over six years. Tribe has never been shy about publicity: some Washington reporters say that until recently he often called them to announce his latest court victories. "He may tend to be a little cocky," says fellow Constitutional Scholar Yale Kamisar of the University of Michigan. "But it's just a matter of knowing what...
...remarkable how well the Redskins recovered from last year's success, it is amazing how well Murphy weathered the strike. In the N.F.L., shop stewards tend to lose a step in the offseason, and Murphy was in the forefront of the negotiations. "Before the strike," he says, "the captains went to Joe Gibbs and told him there were some things we had to do. All he said was 'Whatever you do, stay together...
...newer form of theater. Customers could write their own final script - or choose appropriate last words from the company's handsome selection ("Pick the goodbye that is you"), and then, well before the actual end, videotape their own official death scenes. The trouble is that most people tend to be windy and predictable when asked to say a few words on an important occasion. Maybe the best way to be memorable at the end is to be enigmatic. When in doubt, simply mutter, "Rosebud." - By Lance Morrow