Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hostess-elect worries about costs, as do millions of others: "I mean, who can afford the price of great wines these days?" The wines they do serve are chosen by Reagan. Her stylish wardrobe will remain much the same: "I tend toward simpler clothes. I like some things from Yves Saint Laurent. I like Bill Blass, Adolfo, and I think Jimmy Galanos is a master, although he's got terribly expensive. I remember the first dress I ever got from Jimmy; I paid $125 for it. Those good old days!" Her size...
...their three sons. When the children had all entered school, she earned her doctorate in political science from Columbia University, and then started teaching at Georgetown. In 1974 she published a book, Political Woman, in which she showed that American women in politics behave much like men, though they tend to get a later start because of child rearing. "There is a reluctance to have women run for office," she explains. "But one of the interesting things is how quickly this reluctance gives way. One woman says, 'No door opens unless you push it,' but that...
...taught. Old-fashioned or newfashioned, neighborhood schools offer the possibility of increased parental involvement. "Like many other mothers, I work," Carol Ducy explained. "It would be impractical to drive many miles across town to the school where my child has been bused." Even though places like Palisades Village tend to drain bright students from the public school system, Roberta Weintraub, president of the Los Angeles Board of Education concedes: "When you create an untenable situation for financially able parents, they are going to find a solution. Busing is the second great American social experiment that failed. The first was Prohibition...
...mass grave had been found. Walesa tried to deflect these inflammatory questions, but his answer must have troubled the Kremlin even so: "We do have to have a settling of accounts. Right now we have to work on odnowa." Some Solidarity theoreticians, while conceding the party its "leading role," tend to define that role narrowly. Says Jacek Kuron, a dissident intellectual and senior adviser to the union: "It means the monopoly of power over the police forces, the army and foreign policy. All other matters must be open to negotiation with society...
...certain monks and others who believe that it heightens the soul's capacity to approach God. For ordinary people, a bit of silence may occasionally seem golden, but what they mostly need is the conversation that keeps them close to others. Those who do not get enough talk tend to wither in spirit...