Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lead pipe, the other by stomping him to death with his feet. Marielitos shot at an eleven-year-old boy simply because he was a witness to a robbery. These criminals have a ruthlessness without any parallel that I've ever seen." The refugees who go wrong tend to be slight young men, gaunt and hollow-eyed, who dress in sneakers, jeans and T shirts. Many wear tattoos advertising their criminal specialties: Madre engraved on a small heart for a hit man, a falling star for a kidnapper. Dade County Medical Examiner Joe Davis last month denounced Marielito murderers...
Confronted with the confusing technicalities of the insanity defense, juries tend to fall back on down-to-earth considerations. Explains Justice Department Lawyer William Hardy: "They accept the defense where the defendant is guilty but it seems unfair to send him to prison. This is a way for the jury to compromise." They are least likely to accept an insanity plea when the defendant is extremely violent or dangerous. Example: the trial of a Californian nicknamed "the Vampire Killer," who disemboweled several of his six murder victims, drank their blood and ate their flesh. He was sentenced to death...
Professors in the social sciences, where outside consulting work may be less frequent and is almost always less lucrative, tend to argue that the council's new guidelines will succeed. Only at the margin, they say, will the new codes dissuade professors from undertaking new outside responsibilities--probably exactly the ones the guidelines aim at curbing. But in the hard sciences, as Watson's remarks at last week's dedication suggested, the outlook is less sanguine, perhaps because the financial temptations for faculty members there are so great...
Actions like those tend to speak louder than words, and the K-School should continue its efforts to increase its responsiveness to real human needs, not potential donors' fancies. But as a first step, it should loudly reaffirm its commitment to maintaining the identification with Kennedy, in name and spirit...
...there's plenty of climb left, for these ridges tend to bump along, one false summit after another. Oh, another couple of hundred yards, oh, another 40 yards, oh (giggle), another quarter-mile. The real top is obvious; there are lots of people up there eating lunch. The wind picks up a little, cooling the sweat on our backs, and we add a layer or two. And when we get up there, we are pretty quiet, part tired, and part too busy with all the looking around in awe that occupies one on the tops of mountains. Mt. Jefferson, perched...