Word: tend
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...some extent too, we tend to think of eccentricity as the prerogative, even the hallmark, of genius. And genius is its own vindication. Who cared that Glenn Gould sang along with the piano while playing Bach, so long as he played so beautifully? Even the Herculean debauches of Babe Ruth did not undermine so much as confirm his status as a legend...
...could go and see the President." Because of Teller's reputation for hyperbole, concedes Democratic Representative from California George Brown Jr., an SDI opponent and the member of the House intelligence committee who initiated a General Accounting Office probe, "Those in Congress and the scientific community tend to discount his exuberance. The President doesn't. The President thinks he is speaking with revealed wisdom...
That's how things tend to be when Richard Green, the first black to hold the New York chancellorship, steps forward. Green, 51, has ruled for the past eight years over the 55-school Minneapolis system, where 40% of the 40,000 students are minority youngsters and where the quality of education had sagged badly through the '70s. After first putting in 16 months of planning, Green moved so firmly that in Minneapolis, B.C. also means "before the change...
...liberals' hope to keep government on its trajectory), it prepared the way for other beginnings: the women's movement, the environmental movement, the complex reverberant life that the '60s would have in the American mind long after the melodrama was over and those previously on fire went to tend their gardens...
Because stipends for fellowships in Ph.D. programs are so low (averaging $10,000 to $12,000 a year), more and more hungry degree candidates are opting for private industry and the $30,000-plus starting pay. Foreigners who make the effort to come to the U.S. tend to stick it out for their doctorates. This will be reflected in the composition of future U.S. faculties. By 1992, Iowa State University President Gordon Eaton predicts, "somewhere between 75% and 93%" of engineering professors will be foreign born...