Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Some donors tend to be less honest when giving their medical histories for money rather than purely altruistic reasons," she added...
...Ramones had not only raised themselves in Specter's image, but played something he recognized: "Basic, honest, good rock 'n' roll. They get the feeling across." This set them apart from the pop mainstream for Spector, whose opinions about much of today's sound tend to be a tad prickly ("The Bee Gees produce porpoise music. It's interspecies communication...
...Chinese attach a great deal of importance to athletic exchanges, Jay Henderson, program associate of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, said yesterday. "They tend to see sports as a mechanism of conducting competition, but also a mechanism through which they can accomplish the political goal of establishing friendship," he said...
Such controls need to develop as part of a "permanent economic structure" before they can work effectively, William H. Lazonick, assistant professor of Economics, said. Wage and price controls tend to become a "bureaucratic and political mess," he added...
...developing countries tend to shun loans from the IMF because of the stringent repayment and budget-cutting conditions that come along with the money. Nor does the fund seem prepared to ease back on its tough lending conditions. Says one official flatly: "IMF loans are usually harsh but essential to get a country that borrows them out of the economic mess that it is in. While I think that there will be tremendous pressure on the fund to ease off a bit, doing so would clearly be wrong...