Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have the skills. It's just a matter of concentration." Schossberger said. "We tend to go up then down. Once we get down, we have trouble getting back...
Younger generations who grew up with television tend to value the visual image highly, while older ones pay more attention to dialogue, the TV producer said. "This is a generation that absorbs imagery," said Pittman...
...buying stakes in companies and leading other investors to believe he had an interest in a buyout, only to sell out after the stock price rose. Among his targets have been Golden Nugget, Pillsbury and Federated Department Stores. But because he has made an outright offer this time, analysts tend to think this is no bluff. "If the bid weren't serious, it wouldn't be $120 a share," says Helane Becker of Shearson Lehman Hutton...
...consequence of this policy has been that black children, who make up about 40% of the foster-child population, tend to spend much longer waiting for adoption than whites. Recently agencies have been quietly permitting more black children to go to white adoptive homes. They have also been mobilizing to recruit more potential black parents...
...soon. "You think because you have been successful in your own company abroad, you can run a U.S. firm the same way just because you have acquired the company," says Michel Besson, the French chief executive of CertainTeed, a maker of building materials based in Valley Forge, Pa. "You tend to underestimate their strengths and overlook your own weaknesses." An executive of a West German- owned U.S. subsidiary recalls a dramatic showdown: "Their people would come here and put down our people, our work ethics. I had a little problem with that. I finally slammed my door shut and told...