Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sociologist Robert Spiegelman, in the summer 1982 issue of the journal Social Policy, presented an article dealing in depth with how the media tend to minimize or ignore the seriousness of recent mass anti-militarism activities Spiegelman notes, for example, that press accounts of the nuclear freezer rally in New York last June focused on the trivial aspects of the gathering. "The mainstream broadcast media presented the huge rally in a relentlessly upbeat mood. Their unmodulated celebration of the rally's size and good behavior smothered and obliterated the urgency and terror that brought so many together...
...term elections tend to be a variegated quilt of unique local races, with different patterns discernible to different observers...
...millionaire in a short period of time," says Robert Brosio, an assistant U.S. Attorney for Los Angeles, "in the drug business you can work your way up very fast." Fear of getting caught does not substantially deter risk taking. In Southern California, as elsewhere, those who use cocaine tend to be people of substance and reputation. "You're not dealing with dirt bags on the street," says Donald Bays, analytical...
Cambridge Election commisioner Cindy Schen said voter upathy here may stem from the city', academic components. Students tend to be more concerned with lederal electionsthan with state and local comesis, she said...
...addition to the discouraging competition for these jobs. Harvard's strength in teaching corporate law and the high pressure recruiting process itself tend to push people toward careers related to business, placement officers and students agreed...