Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speaks with affecting hesitation, her sentences full of internal rhymes. She lives in an abandoned greenhouse. After Barrett finally short-circuits and decides to challenge God to prove his existence by descending into a cave and waiting for a sign, Allison nurses him back to health. "Lately I tend to fall down," he says. "That's all right I tend to pick things up. I'm a hoister," she responds...
...because they had learned to decipher the babbling of babies. Women were more adept than men, which seems to indicate that "female intuition" is no sexist myth. And actors rated high, while psychologists scored surprisingly low-perhaps, Archer says, because they are trained to suppress their own emotions and tend to lose the ability to recognize emotion in others...
...gypsy moth. Properly, these caterpillars, bristly brown and yellow chaps with red and blue spots, belong down south in Massachusetts, where for some years they have chewed the leaves from increasingly large patches of woodland. Reports of this munching have been received with equanimity in New Hampshire, whose yeomen tend to take the view that something is always chewing on Massachusetts. If there is anything left to chew there after crooked paving contractors and easy-had tax assessors have put down their napkins, the New Hampshireman is perfectly willing to leave it to adolescent moths...
...favorite tax shelters, however, remain traditional real estate ventures and oil and gas exploration. Says Stuart E. Seigel, formerly chief counsel for the IRS and now a Washington tax lawyer: "Real estate investments tend to be more economically sound and assure tax benefits with no questions asked." Someone with $200,000 to invest might use the money for a down payment on a $1 million apartment complex. He would receive the rental income from the property, plus a tax credit because of depreciation on the $1 million building. The credit could then be used to lower his regular taxable income...
...partly the President's style. He likes to deal with detail. He likes to have an answer on every issue that appeals to his engineering mind as being quantitatively correct in as substantial a way as possible. I think most politicians tend to move in a different way; to look at the broader political dimensions of a problem...