Word: tend
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Roosevelt had always been the total politician, immensely gifted in all the arts of power, combining public spirit with guile. Politicians tend to judge themselves by election returns, and the results of 1936 apparently convinced Roosevelt, never an exceptionally modest man, that he could do almost anything. He devised his vengeance on the Supreme Court in total secrecy; just two days after inviting the aged Justices to the White House for a formal dinner, he summoned his staff to work at 6:30 a.m. to start typing and distributing the Judicial Reform Act of 1937. This artful document alleged that...
Dean Fox said his office has, as in the past, sent a letter to all physicians and nurse practioners urging them to inform students that the grades on make-up exams tend to be significantly lower...
...four earlier novels and a collection of short stories, Author Gail Godwin, 44, has presented a distinctive gallery of rogues, female, troubled and courageous. They tend to have Southern backgrounds, with all the accompanying luggage of traditions and social forms, and an unsettling inclination to think and act on their own (Godwin was raised in Asheville, N.C., and has taught English and creative writing at Vassar and Columbia, among other places). The author's fifth novel repeats previous patterns on a grander scale: more main characters, broader swatches of life to dazzle and puzzle them...
...manager. He also won the friendship of Alexander Haig, whose job he may well have saved during the Secretary of State's testy bouts with Allen and the White House staff. Even more valuable for his new role as mediator, Clark took no public positions on issues that tend to divide the Reagan team into factions of pragmatists and ideologues. Says one official who knows Clark well: "Like the President, he believes we live in a world with one adversary, the Soviets. But he is pragmatic and doesn't impose that view to the exclusion of regional realities...
...upbeat nonchalance, making a lark of it or seizing the opportunity to switch careers. Still, Americans more typically take a cruel psychic bruising when they lose a job (never mind the cause). And if joblessness goes on for long, men and women of all ages, occupations and economic classes tend to suffer a sharp loss of selfesteem, a diminished sense of identity, a certain murkiness of purpose, a sense of estrangement from their friends-a sort of feeling of exile from wherever they feel they really belong...