Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hundreds of Marielitos are behind bars in state and local prisons. But many more elude proper sentencing. Judges lack knowledge of their criminal histories in Cuba and without that guidance, or up-to-date information on their activities in the U.S., tend to give them probation. Nonetheless, about 1,080 Marielitos are in the federal penitentiary in Atlanta. Nearly one-third have been in jail since their arrival in the U.S. Under Immigration procedures, Marielitos who admitted to a criminal record at the processing centers three years ago were frequently imprisoned, though often temporarily. Many street-smart Cubans...
...eastern Massachusetts, a hotbed of high school hockey--where more than 13,000 fans watched the Division I tournament last winter in the Boston Garden--people tend to notice players like Bourbeau...
...main reasons Steiner cites for his move to enlarge the Harvard legal staff is to save money, since in-house salaries tend to be lower than the rates major law firms charge. Ropes and Gray's top billing rate in 1982, for instance, was $200 an hour, and last year Harvard paid the firm Sl.221, 188 in fees. Steiner also notes that University lawyers are generally more in tune with Harvard policies and practices and are therefore better able to handle cases involving essential University issues such as the tenure process. Harvard currently uses its own staff as much...
Often the anger is directed at the whole female sex. Rapists tend to view women with a mixture of reverence and resentment. They choose random women on whom to vent their roiling rage about mothers who mistreated them or women who rejected them. "I was angry with my wife for having a crush on my brother, and I was angry with the first girl I went out with when I was 17 who told me I wasn't assertive enough," said John, a rapist in the sex-offender program at Western State Hospital at Fort Steilacoom, Wash. "I felt judged...
Fifty-three percent of the Bell operating companies' employees are women, who still tend to cluster in such jobs as operators and clerks; few have jobs as splicers or in other crafts. Says Beaumont: "That's because very few women receive any education in basic electronics and electricity. Guys got that in school. Most of us didn't." Women will now be encouraged to go into those fields and develop their skills...