Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even large organizations with broad, fixedagendas, tend to choose negotiation over publicconflict. Students working for the Harvard Unionof Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW)organization drive focused their attention onbuilding community support for the union. Bydistributing pins, posters and balloons, thestudents intended to create an atmosphere wherestaff members considering the union would be lessinfluenced by the University's anti-unioncampaign.Massive rallies like this 1985 divestmentprotest are growing rarer as student groups branchout and choose smaller, more pragmatic goals...
...people who were going to die for the revolution went on to law school. I tend not to meet the people who were active and then went on to Wall Street, [but] I know they're out there and I know a lot of them voted for Reagan," he says...
...Since they are not on work-study, they are unlikely to get a job through the SEO because they tend to prefer work-study students. In these cases students will come to me at the recommendation of a coach," Allard says...
...presence of athletes in Athletic Department jobs can be exaggerated, Allard says. He notes that only one-third of all monitors play sports. The problem is that "athletes carry a high profile," he says. "When a varsity athlete is working in the equipment room or some place else, people tend to notice. What they may miss are the 15 other workers employed who aren't a Tom Yohe [Harvard's first-string quarterback...
...runners for the high school citizenship citation, but there is an easy and equitable racial mix among thrashers. Rivalry seems to occur along geographical, not blood, lines. Eastern skateboarders smart about skateboarding's being seen as another sunny fad from Southern California, while the folks on the West Coast tend to rise above the controversy -- smoothly, natch -- as if they were crackin' an Ollie (standing on the board and bouncing straight into the air) over a large fire hydrant...