Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rubbishy News of the World called Dempster's outburst rubbish too. Like Whitaker, he is unruffled. Royal-watchers tend to identify themselves with the family and even imagine that they are on intimate terms. "She should be brought up short," the avuncular Dempster explains. "The message got through to Diana that she cannot behave badly and that she'd better start pulling up her socks. Since then, she has been out all day, visiting hospitals and talking to children. She is showing more interest in Charles' hobbies. She is wearing the same clothes over again. What I am saying...
...seems rather odd, especially in light of their fixation with mathematical and technical expertise. Nathanson guesses that it has to do with the fact that scholars like Bernstein and Kazhdan work in pure mathematics which, unlike applied math, has no immediate use for developing weapons and technology. "These people tend to be short-sighted," he says, adding that losing such mathematicians could come back to haunt the Soviets in the long-term...
MARRIED. David Stockman, 36, number-crunching Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Jennifer Blei, 28, IBM sales representative; both for the first time; in Washington, D.C. Stockman will not handle the family budget, he says, because "I tend to round off numbers to the nearest billion dollars, and Jennifer says I lack sufficient attention to detail...
...look for 17 points from me every night," the Philadelphia native said. But he's not going to disappear altogether from the box score, either "Teams tend to slough off on me too much and that hurts the other guys...
...real value of this or any testing data, "Richard Wood ward, assistant superintendent of schools, said last month." is to learn what we can do "Cambridge school principals and officials have noted that students throughout the system tend to meet the city's minimum standards in math, but fall far below in reading and writing. With this nationally noticed deficiency in students verbal abilities comes a more unusual figure, and one Cambridge may be able to do some thing about System wide fewer sixth graders met the competencies than either third or eights graders. And in all schools...