Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prison (almost all are there for some other, less peculiar crime) regard rapists with contempt, and rapists in turn call the cellblocks' child abusers scum. But in fact the three groups have some rough affinities. The privately violent are often alcoholic or drug-dependent. All three species tend to have low opinions of themselves; they get violent, psychoanalysts say, because it gives them a cheap squirt of power. Like most criminals, they are immature and impulsive. Everything they want they want instantly. And they are uncommonly isolated people, often virtually friendless, cut off from those who lead richer, happier...
...with the children and thus are provoked to a greater degree. With single mothers, the stress of child rearing is often aggravated by reduced economic circumstances and the lack of a supporting adult to share parental burdens. The unwanted, the unusually brilliant or retarded, and the physically handicapped children tend to be often abused...
...line civil rights leaders are also skeptical about a Jackson candidacy. They tend to be more cautious than their gung-ho Chicago colleague, somewhat resentful of his self-promoting style, and above all unwilling to have him act as broker for them in the political arena. Both Benjamin Hooks of the N.A.A.C.P. and Lowery have expressed their reservations. Of the candidates who embrace the black leadership's "people's platform," Lowery says, he will urge support for the one "who has the best chance of helping my vote purchase a one-way ticket west for the present occupant...
...defense for Jackson's other major project, a series of "trade covenants" in which large corporations agree to hire more blacks and use the services of minority-owned businesses. Jackson's critics, on the other hand, contend that results are meager because Jackson does not tend the orchard long enough to ensure a harvest...
...Since such figures are an average for all foods, the prices of beef, pork and poultry are apt to jump even more. In the months immediately ahead, however, those prices may show an interim drop, since farmers anticipating rising grain costs because of the poor harvest will tend to sell off their livestock...