Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...McMahon she says generally enjoys but I only do it two nights a week, but she says of the hours, "that's one of the problems with working in a lab like this you tend to develop a sleep disorder yourself...
...were respected experts in the art of forgery detection initially taken in by the fabrications of such prolific deceivers as Irving and the two mother-daughter teams? Irving contends that hired experts tend to render the favorable judgments that publishers seeking their guidance wish to hear. Once a forger masters his subject's handwriting idiosyncrasies and ways of thinking, Irving claims, sheer quantity is no problem. "Once you do one page," he says, "you can do 20. Once you do 20, you can do a book...
What do they look for? First, for the flow of the handwriting. Writing in which each letter of the alphabet is too carefully consistent over too many lines or over different periods of time is a telltale sign of forgery. In writing naturally and quickly, people tend to vary the formation of most characters ever so slightly, often subconsciously. Even their writing posture or how they feel about what they are writing can create minute variations. "Your signature on a $50,000 mortgage, is a little more careful than on a $10 check," notes FBI Special Agent James Lile...
...SoHo district, is the most promising of the artists who have emerged from Italy in the past few years, floating to New York City like putti on roseate, gaseous clouds of hype. Because they share the same initial and transplanted nationality, Chia, Enzo Cucchi, 32, and Francesco Clemente, 31, tend to be bracketed together as the "three Cs." In fact they are very different painters. Chia's light-operatic gifts have little in common with Cucchi's mucky, doom-laden earnestness: apoplectic chickens and mud slides in the cemetery, done in umber and black two inches thick...
...have improved in the U.S. they have moved in take advantage of the doors opened by the Civil Rights movement. While there have always been many qualified Asian-Americans in the academic pool, only recently have they increased their numbers manifold in selective colleges throughout the nation. These students tend to be highly motivated and often score in the highest percentiles on standardized college entrance exams. Many applying to Ivy League schools, for example, have both superb grade point averages and scores in the 99th percentile in the math, chemistry, physics, and biology sections of the college board achievement tests...