Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example, graduate students as a rule receive limited financial support from Harvard in terms of outright grants during their years of teaching eligibility. As a result, graduate students tend to depend on their teaching income as more than financial assistance--it is in fact their principal means of financial support. Hence the "desperate scramble" for sections about which Mr. Rowe spoke...
...Academic communities tend to be very easy [to spread beliefs in] compared to other parts of America. [There are] more open minds, more of an intrigue in what's unusual. College campuses are generally quite productive places for people to become Baha'i," says Rhett Diessner, a second-year student at the Graduate School of Education. One becomes a Baha'i by making a declaration of faith, which can occur as early...
...nearly impossible to design convention centers that function efficiently yet satisfy the soul. They are workaday Gargantuas that tend to be overblown shows of engineering (the Moscone Center in San Francisco) or imposing fortresses (McCormick Place in Chicago). But New York City's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, designed by James Freed of I.M. Pei & Partners, is exceptional. The vast interior (1.7 million sq. ft.), with its weblike metal skeleton, resembles the glorious train sheds of the late 19th century and, of course, London's Crystal Palace...
...hard to express coming from a lower economic background because people tend to feel sorry for you," says Craig, who concentrates in history and sociology. "No one wants to evoke pity. It's easy to say you're different, but it's hard...
...Some very special demands tend to be made on minority faculty members," says University of Pennsylvania Dean Robert H. Mundheim. "I think that we have to be sensitive to that problem and be protective of those faculty members...