Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once the convention settled down to business, there were papers and palaver aplenty. One of the more interesting scientific sessions involved sleep and depression. It has long been known that depressed people have trouble staying asleep and tend to wake up early. And lately doctors have learned that they also launch earlier than normal people into the intense period of sleep characterized by rapid eye movements (REM) that occur under closed lids...
...part because these and other writing reforms are so late in coming, businesses increasingly find it necessary to set up their own writing programs. It is not merely that secretaries tend not to know how to spell. M.B.A.s with degrees from prestigious colleges cannot write clear letters, memos or reports. "Communications training is one of the hottest areas in the corporate field today," says Nate Rosenblatt, a vice president of a new and thriving New Jersey-based company called Learn Inc. One of Learn's big pedagogic sellers-to personnel...
Many of those books are written by doctors and, while soberly reassuring and biologically informative, tend to address private qualms in a condescending manner. Cole's book is breezy, full of quotes from mothers, and reassuring. She points out, for example, the almost always overlooked distinction between being pregnant and actually being a mother. "While the two are biologically connected, emotionally they may have nothing in common at all." In other words, if you are eight months pregnant and find someone else's baby a repulsive blob, you have not necessarily made a horrible mistake...
...report finds one of the greatest differences of opinion between white and minority students in their perceptions of separatism among racial groups. Almost 60 per cent of whites questioned said they think minorities tend to isolate themselves, and much of the evidence the committee heard at its five open meetings in 1977 corroborates that perception...
...tend to be somewhat of an individual, I guess that's how you'd put it," he admits. "It's taken awhile for people to get used to me, and some haven...