Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most students who major in Afro-American Studies say that in no way is it less rigorous than other concentrations. Dawkins, however, says that Afro-American concentrators tend to be more relaxed than those in other departments. "They are not really as intense as those in government," she says. "They're more compassionate, especially with the reserve readings, they're never all out at once...
...powers over life and death, are held in low esteem by many who see them as self-serving money chasers. Dr. Richard Kusserow, inspector general for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, claims that physicians' peer- review boards, out of concern for the profession's good name, tend to sweep ethics complaints under the rug. "They protect each other's incompetency from the public," he says...
...These articles of faith, embodied in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution, literally govern our lives today. Meanwhile the compulsions to repent and punish sin remain just beneath the skin, erupting like fever blisters in times of stress and producing a rash of reforms. Inevitably the compulsions tend to disappear as quickly as they surface, leaving the root causes of trouble intact. As Democratic Congressman Leon Panetta of California puts it, "There comes a backlash to these reforms." Thus, after the Watergate scandal of the early '70s, both the Government and the people turned back to business...
...that answer . . . You cannot, it seems to me, accept responsibility for mistakes, as admirable as that may be, and thereby absolve the President of responsibility." Outside the hearings, & Democratic Senator George Mitchell of Maine was more colorful. "McFarlane's testimony of the President's personal involvement," he said, "does tend to indicate that the water is lapping at the walls of the sand castle...
...coming-out 17 years hence. The fact that this brood will not reappear until 2004 is one reason scientists are reluctant to put too much of their time into unlocking the cicada's secrets. As Richard Froeschner, a research entomologist at the Smithsonian Institution, points out, "Enthusiasm and curiosity tend to wane between generations...