Word: tend
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...styled in the "Renaissance System" of a central main house surrounded by smaller buildings and outlying farmlands, according to Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Dante Della Terza, a member of the villa's advisory committee. On approximately 50 acres of farmland, four families reside in small houses and tend to the crops...
...sympathy for the harasser. However, unfortunate as the consequences of public opprobrium may be, they should be considered before harassing one's students and colleagues. We should be concerned instead with the devastating impact this case has had on the lives and careers of the victims. Prevailing social attitudes tend to subject the victims of crimes like rape or sexual harassment to more scrutiny than the perpetrators, yet the victims in this case have far more at stake than does Professor Dominguez: their careers are not as well established, they do not have the protection of tenure, and the harasser...
Because subjects tend to suffer low blood-sugar concentrations after the experiment is through they eat a free carbohydrate-rich lunch and receive a stipend of $40, Silver said...
During the latter scene, Phoebe is wearing a pair of shapeless sweat-pants, child's baseball cap in bright blue and a particularly loud sweater. The movie does no better with comedy than with romance--scenes that are not maudlin tend to be pathetic. There is a pronounced effort to make the cast look as unappealing as possible, presumably to add a comic touch and to scoff convention. "Who does your wardrobe, Quasimodo?" Jason asks Phoebe in one of his lucid moments...
More than 60% of Houston public school teachers taking a competency exam last spring failed. The example is not surprising. Nationwide, education majors tend to come from the lowest strata of students: last year they scored 32 points below the national average on the verbal portion of the SAT test and 48 points lower on the mathematics section. Says James Guthrie, former chairman of the department of education at the University of California at Berkeley: "In the past, the quality of American education was maintained by women and minorities. Now these people can do other things...