Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Altman added that as the match progressed, Harvard's women "started to gain confidence in themselves. It's important for the players to see that they can lose the first two games and still win. Most intelligent teams tend to be able to do that...
Groups like RUS and BSA and others that represent minority constituencies often appear strident and unsympathetic to the student body at large. Most people, for example, know little about sexual harassment in Harvard classrooms, and tend to underestimate its importance. But this does not make RUS's mission any less crucial. If a suitable substitute ever emerges perhaps a referendum would be more palatable, but now, it seems a blunt tool to stamp out a University Hall gadfly...
...skeptical about the prospects for effective student government at Harvard, where most natural leaders tend to flock to other campus organizations and where spontaneous protests and coalitions galvanized at the last minute tend to be more effective. But all undergraduates should use their votes seriously, because the council's first-ever $60,000 budget should be allocated prudently and because student government should broaden beyond the clique of adolescent megalomaniacs who have dominated it so often in the past...
Republicans will benefit from a far larger party war chest: $126 million so far, compared with $15 million for the Democrats. The key to Republican riches has been sophisticated direct-mail solicitations. Although individual Democratic candidates tend to raise more money than Republicans, mainly because more of them are incumbents, the G.O.P's overflowing campaign treasury will allow the party to funnel dollars into close races and spend up to ten times as much as the Democrats on nationwide television...
Campus politics usually tend to settle down a bit after the Commencement Day party tents are cleared away and the Faculty heads for Vermont or the Cape. In place of juicy student government scandal and University Hall intrigue, die-hard Harvard watchers are left with raging confrontations over summer school leg-shaving services and updates on the active campus social scene (see Campus Hijinx, below...