Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State Department just two weeks after the President's Inauguration. His posting: Assistant Secretary-designate for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. Not everyone was ecstatic about the choice; his detractors included human rights activists, religious groups, liberal politicians and newspaper editorialists. New and popular Presidents, however, tend to be permitted the nominees they want, and Lefever, in testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, airily dismissed his opponents as "Communist-inspired." Yet after two rancorous days of hearings last week, Lefever appeared to have a good chance of becoming the first Reagan appointee rejected by Congress. Still, vows...
...main problem with this technique is that patients just don't get into the hospital in time. In the first two to three hours, 50% of the heart muscle that's destined to die will die, then the amount of tissue jeopardized tapers off." Because blood clots tend to form where plaque clogs the artery, researchers are considering following streptokinase therapy with balloon angioplasty. The aim is to prevent extensive-tissue damage and a second attack...
...naturally boisterous and need special handling; a few have turned out to be sheep killers. To work properly, guarding dogs must be introduced to sheep as pups so that by maturity they are totally at ease with the flock-and vice versa. When a predator approaches, the sheep tend to converge behind the dog. "They recognize him as a security blanket," says Zoologist Jack McGrew of Colorado State University, where Komondors have been tested for three years. Ewes in labor sometimes seek out the protection of the dog. Usually this trust is more than reciprocated. Dogs have been known...
...originally were a tiny community on the Rhine. The Ashkenazim founded modern political Zionism and brought to Israel Western values, education, technology and tastes. The problem lies in the fact that often they look down on Sephardim, and the Sephardim on them, a phenomenon fed by ethnic differences. Sephardim tend to live in small towns, raise large families, and to eat foods that even now reflect their Spanish heritage. Rice, for example, is permitted during Passover. Ashkenazim tend to make their homes in the city or the kibbutz, and are often lighter in skin, eye color and hair than...
...just as quick to hand out compliments as the friendly barbs and banter thrown around the locker room. "My job as co-captain is to keep Betty under control--no really Betty and I tend to propel one another. She is an ideal person for the job; she gets the work done, isn't flashy, exudes pride and leadership and inspires...