Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...humor runs to self-deprecating remarks delivered in a deliberately overblown, ornate style. Told last week that he seemed a bit tense on returning from a brief Florida holiday, he harrumphed: "I have not for a few days imbibed the excitement of the campaign trail, where the cheering multitudes tend to enhance your self-esteem...
...only sure thing about an added facility is that it will be filled -and given society's policies, will soon enough become just another hellhole. President Milton Rector of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency even contends that if space is "readily available," the rates of incarceration tend to go up even though serious crime may be declining...
Many concentrators say that the sophomore tutorials in the department tend to be weak, adding that too many unmotivated students drag down sections and discussions. "We're aware of these potential problems in the sophomore tutorials," Judd says. "The dilemma is trying to achieve two goals at once. For one thing, we think it's important to have house-based tutorials. On the other hand, the problem is trying to find something that the tutor can teach that will be interesting to all the students...
...There tend to be issues of general concern to groups involved with women's issues." Dundes said, adding that the RUS group plans to identify these shared issues and help coordinate activity around them...
...dailies are now owned by groups, double the percentage in 1960, and independent papers are being gobbled up at a rate of 50 or 60 a year. What bothers critics most is a reduction in the diverse, often lively voices of independent newspapers. There are complaints, too, that chains tend to be obsessed with profits and indifferent to editorial excellence. Says Congressman Morris Udall, an Arizona Democrat who is an outspoken opponent of chains: "I think you are losing something pretty precious when you have a large organization ... that is more interested in the bottom line than what...