Word: tend
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While acknowledging Connally's strength in the South, Thompson notes that most of Reagan's support in 1976 came from the South and West. "Southern voters tend not to change their minds over four years," he says. But he will not predict victory in Florida...
Parker sees a heavily tenured faculty as a constricting force which leads to inbreeding of ideas, since tenured faculty tend not to offer tenure to those with points of view widely differing from their own. And she criticizes the "up-or-out" policy of promotion of assistant professors, which Harvard practices, as unnecessarily deterimental to the careers of teachers who are not promoted. Once a teacher has been refused tenure at any college, she points out, he or she is practically guaranteed unemployability at any other institution...
...well in high school in order to do well in college in order to do well in law school and, presumably, in later life...reduces professors to functionaries; their knowledge is less important than their certifying function...the best students don't consider academic careers; indeed they tend to think their teachers weren't very bright to have decided against medical school. Their doubts only exacerbate the professors' self-doubts...
Some other changes to consider: the elimination of team sports, for example, which tend to exemplify a bellicose nationalism already too evident in the Games; the end of the hypocritical distinction between amateur and professional...
Until he suffered a stroke in 1972, Durante had as much vitality off-stage as he did on. Throughout his life, he would stay up late with show business cronies, joking around. In a profession where rivalries tend to be fierce, he had no known enemies. Nor did he adopt Hollywood vices, except for an occasional visit to the track. A devout Catholic, Durante lived in a modest eight-room house and worked tirelessly to raise money for the Damon Runyon Fund for Cancer Research...