Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much changes in the ghettos no matter who runs the city government. Warns James Dumpson, a sociologist and assistant director of a private foundation working with the city's black neighborhoods: "When it's perceived that politics isn't serving the needs of the people, people tend to get disillusioned, cynical and despairing...
...think the stalemate in the autonomy talks creates a climate in which extremists on either side tend to fill the vacuum...
...trips in America are for 20 miles or less, and 99% are for 100 miles or less. Thus, at least in theory, the electric car's short range should not be a drawback. But Americans do not see their cars in such practical, unromantic terms. They tend to buy autos for peak use, for that annual trip to visit a distant relative. They want fast acceleration and a lot of miles between stops. To change all that, as Analyst Keller says with considerable understatement, "will require some adjustment in terms of how people think of their vehicle...
Discipline and Violence. Last year 110,000 teachers, 5% of the U.S. total, reported they were attacked by students, an increase of 57% over 1977-78. Teachers believe administrators tend to duck the subject of violence in the schools to avoid adverse publicity. More than half the teachers assaulted feel that afterward authorities did not take adequate action. Today one in eight high school teachers says he "hesitates to confront students out of fear." One in every four reports that he has had personal property stolen at school...
Paperwork done by teachers and administrators for district, state and national agencies proliferates geometrically. Though it all may be necessary to some distant bureaucrat-a most unlikely circumstance-when teachers comply they tend to feel like spindling, folding and mutilating all the forms. Paperwork wastes an enormous amount of teaching time. In Atlanta, for example, fourth-and fifth-grade teachers must evaluate their students on 60 separate skills. The children must be rated on everything from whether they can express "written ideas clearly" to whether they can apply "scarcity, opportunity cost and resource allocation to local, national and global situations...