Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reservations, in the end, boil down to the reluctance administrators feel about limiting housing "rights" to further communal ends. Epps, for example, says a random lottery "would treat every student as if that person had not developed any views or interests; it would tend to assume that people are robots instead of human beings with values and tastes." Under current policy, he says, "You run the risk of having stereotypes and alienation develop. I would run that risk...
...Administration plainly plans to stick to its conviction that its program of tax and budget cuts will revive the economy and eventually cure the triad of economic troubles: high inflation, high unemployment, high interest rates. Liberal and conservative economists tend to agree that the only real solution to unemployment is to focus on the entire economic picture. To a certain extent, though, the Administration's goals are contradictory in a faltering economy. "In large measure, you're stuck with a choice between unemployment and inflation," says Economist Rudolph Penner of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank...
Discouraged workers come disproportionately from groups that have tended to be the last hired and lowest paid-women (63% of the discouraged) and members of racial minorities (30%). Typically the discouraged tend to be unskilled and undereducated, and accustomed to long periods of unemployment. But one important measure of the severity of the current recession is that a growing share of the discouraged are men and a significant number are white and white-collar-the people usually thought to be best insulated from economic downturns. From the end of 1980 to the end of 1981 the total of discouraged grew...
Says Fish, "We've got some kids who might tend to be overpowered. Our growth is that we've learned to drive better. We've learned to play more position points...
...likelihood of leashing independent political activities any time soon. There is no immediate prospect of any other challenge reaching the Supreme Court or of any action by Congress. The seeming beneficiaries are the Republicans. The richest political action committees, which have become a major force under the new rules, tend to be made up of such pro-G.O.P. elements as conservative businessmen and members of the Moral Majority and the New Right. But pro-Democratic groups are assembling to join the financing fray. And experts therefore predict even greater spending by such organizations in coming elections. That result...