Word: tend
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Although students can major solely in women's studies. Shapiro notes. "We tend to stress dual majors, because it seems to make a lot of sense." Shapiro says that contrary to images other may have of women's studies students as politically motivated or concerned only with abstractions, these students often regard women studies as pre-professional. In particular, she said many students who double major in women's studies are planing careers in gynecology or divorce...
...seem to be over their recent scoring dearth, when they turned every goalie who faced the squad into an All-American Just as one goal often leads to another. Fusco points out, a missed opportunity just increases the frustration "A lot of times when you're not scoring you tend to stand around and not dig in the corners," he said. "But I think we're out of that...
...production of high-quality goods and has become a formidable competitor in established industries like memory chips and home electronics. But Japan encourages corporate development at the expense of individual initiative. Says Kenji Tamiya, president of Sony Corp. of America: "Japanese society is more highly organized, and big organizations tend to avoid risk. Particularly in new fields like personal computers or video games, you must take risks and make decisions quickly. This gives the U.S. an advantage...
Linkage has thus become today merely a vent for American anger at Soviet behavior, rather than what it was designed to be, a vehicle for actually altering that behavior. Moreover, the Administration's various, often contradictory invocations of linkage tend to point up the absence of a coherent, long-range policy for linkage to serve...
...vestiges and souvenirs of African art, sluiced back into France as mere curiosities by the currents of imperial trade at the turn of the century. To compare such objects with their European responses, at this late date, is to enter a strange chamber of mirrors: we now tend to see African art in terms of cubism; one musical instrument in a glass case at the Met, a Zaire harp, is quite simply a cubist guitar plucked out of Picasso's paint of 1915 and materialized in three dimensions. Primitivism owes its prestige, in the West, to modernism...