Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many economic advisers, however, have come to believe that these policies tend to foster repression rather than progress. Because of the enormous gap between rich and poor within underdeveloped countries, and because of the gap between rich and poor nations, a policy intempered by considerations of equity, promoting unfettered competition, would tend to widen the income gap. Any advantages that did come about would flow to the small group which already own land and capital...
Even a limited boycott, by the U.S. and a few other nations, is a profoundly upsetting possibility to the Soviets. They tend to view the U.S. as their only important and worthy competition in the world, athletically
...nearly two million Jamaicans outside Jamaica tend to reinforce the myth of their country's idyllic condition, Nettleford said...
...they trudge through the primaries, the candidates aim for the votes of a rather narrow slice of the electorate. Because a greater degree of understanding of candidates and issues is needed to cast a primary ballot, those who vote tend to be articulate, highly motivated, upper middle income citizens, who are usually more ideologically committed, whether to the right or to the left. Writes Chicago Lawyer Newton Minow, former chairman of the FCC: "The current version of primaries turns the decision over to what, in a sense, is a new kind of political boss. A small handful of party activists...
...does not mean that Ogilvie's account of how his straight man, Jim Larson, goes slightly bananas in the course of finishing a movie is a mere fever chart. The journey of another kind of odd couple dramatizes, poignantly and wittily, Elizabeth Hardwick's observation that performers tend to lead their lives "gregariously and without affections." There are lots of gorgeous scenes, including an incident of status panic in Schwab's drugstore with a lunchtime crowd of actors desperately vying with one another for the attention of a powerful producer, and a party where a White House...