Word: tend
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...crankier, his following is changing. For one thing, it's smaller. In the latest TIME/CNN Election Monitor, a continuing poll of registered voters, only 15% call themselves Perot supporters, down from 20% five months ago. He is losing support fastest among the affluent and educated, who also tend to vote the most. Independent voters, says a poll by the Pew Research Center, would now prefer a generic third-party candidate to the razor-tongue billionaire...
...true that by pursuing affirmative action, Harvard undertakes a commitment to diversity that extends beyond equality of opportunity narrowly construed. Yet it does so in an attempt to affirmatively contribute to remedying the social and economic barriers that tend to limit opportunity for some minority groups...
...Serious plays today tend to be more political, episodic, cinematic," says Jory. "They tend to be less about wanting, after all these years, to have your father say, 'I love you.'" Yet reconciliation informed many of the festival works, including two lovely playlets, Lucas' What I Meant Was (a young man reimagines the dinner-table arguments he's had with his family, so that everyone is now rueful and forgiving) and Hwang's Trying to Find Chinatown (a Caucasian and a Chinese discover detente in their crisscrossing cultural identities). Joan Ackermann's sweet, funny The Batting Cage takes a comic...
...help you out, Rob Hyman: the wind has been blowing pretty strong lately and posters tend to fly loose. And sometimes when professors use the blackboard during lecture they like to erase whatever is on it. Now stop wasting my time...
...course, traditions die hard. Even as a self-proclaimed gender policewoman, I still tend to blurt out "Freshman Week" or "Freshman Dean's Office" if I am not being careful. Dean Lewis does have a point that "first-year" might sound a little awkward, and that there might be a better substitute to the offending word. Or maybe "freshman" is just one of those words in the "who would want to be one anyway?" category--like "garbageman" and "hitman"--that even the most strident p.c. advocates are content to leave alone...