Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michael Ansara '68, who was active in the Vietnam War protests, said that students today "tend to romanticize the protest period of the 1960s, glossing over the hard work and the mistakes that were made...
...name were so formidable as to reverse a motor reflex. It never works. One might try slipping false jackets on one's books-a cover for The Secret Agent disguising Utility Rates in Ottawa: A Woman's View. But book borrowers are merely despicable, not stupid; they tend to leaf before they pluck. Besides, the interesting thing about the feeling of loss when a book is borrowed is that the book's quality rarely matters. So mysterious is the power of books in our lives that every loss is a serious loss, every hole in the shelf...
...energetic deployment and testing of weapons, are no more sure of what would happen in a nuclear war than is anyone in the U.S. Despite their willingness to rely on brute force, the Soviet leaders have shown no inclination to risk nuclear war with the U.S. By nature, they tend to assume the worst and prepare for the worst, which is one reason why they arm as much as they do. America's land-based iCBMs are supposedly vulnerable to a Soviet
Whether inflation can be kept from marching right back up again in future years of recovery depends heavily on what happens to wages. In the long run, most economists think, prices tend to rise at about the rate by which labor costs exceed productivity gains, although special factors, such as wild fluctuations in oil, food and housing prices, can cause actual inflation to run either above or below this so-called core rate for long periods. For the past several years, most economists figured that the core rate was stuck at 9% to 10%, kept there by a fruitless scramble...
...There is some hope in that Rios Monnt was endorsed in 1974 by the social democrats. Still, middle of the road figures tend to become conservative in Guatemala and I am extremely special that this represents a change for the better." Shelton added...