Word: tend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tend to like sweet [varieties]," Ms. Nills said...
...scientific evidence to support the more ambitious claims being made for vitamins, and what evidence there is is often far from definitive. The quantity of vitamins that an adult or a child should consume depends on many factors, including age, sex and health condition. Making matters more complicated, nutrients tend to interact with one another. For example, vitamin C is supposed to act as an antioxidant, preventing damage to the cells. But that same vitamin, in the presence of iron, can act as a pro-oxidant, causing, rather than preventing, cellular damage, according to Dr. Meir Stampfer, professor of epidemiology...
...early 20th century that her sweet imperiousness has been put to smartest use; she has made no fewer than four films based on E.M. Forster novels (A Room with a View, Maurice, Where Angels Fear to Tread and Howards End). She finds the age attractive--"Women tend to be the protagonists," she notes, "not the ornamental love interest"--and the age returns the favor. If Edwardian England hadn't existed, James Ivory might have had to invent...
...vast majority of people who are missed by the census are at the lower income level. For that reason, the Republican party was upset at the idea of statistical sampling. Census takers believed that this new method would compensate for those missed, and since that part of the county tends to be mostly Democratic, the Republican party felt they would lose seats if districts were redrawn. However, also included in the people missed in the Census are the rural poor, who usually tend to vote Republican, and so most people believe that few drastic changes will be necessary...
...Yorkers tend to be very liberal, but eccentrically...