Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city study two years ago on condominium conversion concluded that the displaced tend to come from the same socio-economic bracket as those who purchase the condominiums...
Probably the greatest danger of tests is that students tend to take their test scores as an indication of their intelligence or, worse yet, of their worth either as a student or as a human being. "ETS doesn't do enough to tell students that just because they got a poor SAT doesn't mean they are not talented," Solomon says...
...want to eliminate testing suggest some sort of alternative to it. "We must recognize and understand that some of the kind of criticism is aimed at the abuse of the use of tests and rather than at the tests themselves," Jewett says. "I worry that some of the criticisms tend to throw out testing without providing an alternative. Tests do help present a total picture...
...achieved by minorities there (about 30% for blacks and 40% for Hispanics, vs. 70% for whites), have considered conducting an experiment: having bar applicants take various innovative tests, including a quiz on a mock arbitration proceeding recorded on video tape. Whatever they are, new legal wrinkles developed in California tend to have wide impact; the state has about a fifth of the nation's student lawyers...
Perhaps too much is expected of television. Because it can shrink the world with a satellite signal, people tend to think of it as a total journalistic service. "We are not," says Chancellor. "We could be on three hours a night and could not produce a Russell Baker column or an Art Buchwald piece or a Jeff MacNelly cartoon. Television is good at the transmission of experience. Print is better at the transmission of facts...