Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wild rabbits tend to know who their enemies are, but domestic rabbits don't know who to fear," she added...
...sounds pretty awful. We tend to automatically associate political machines with corruption. But the White machine floats in a gray area on the margin of legitimacy Few people actually charge. While with committing illegal acts himself And significantly the point of the machine has been to keep the mayor in touch with his constituents--it can thus make for more responsive government even while it helps his re-election campaign...
...sure whose responsibility it should be, but I don't see much of it happening." While she praises President Horner's access sability she does not see anyone at Radcliffe as being the forceful advocate on women's issues that they might "Issues of importance to women tend to be political footballs," she says." Radcliffe is just another bureaucracy to throw it around...
...stranglehold on legislation held by powerful committee chairmen, often crusty autocrats and disproportionately Southern conservatives who attained power by virtue of seniority, not skill. One not wholly unexpected result has been that even relative newcomers now wield considerable power. Eager to make their mark, but lacking expertise, they tend to produce sloppily drafted laws. Example: an energy bill produced by the Senate Finance Committee was intended to assist Northerners earning below the poverty line in paying their heating bills but ended up subsidizing Southerners in running their air conditioners...
...much made the Old West new as buried many of the romantic myths under a modern veneer of laconic prose and cowboy Weltschmerz. Fitzpatrick, and apparently McGuane, believes that quadrupeds do not disappoint like bipeds. The trouble is, novels with more affection for the equine than the human tend to gallop only for a short stretch. And then, all too frequently, they pull up lame. -By Richard Stengel