Word: tend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many say that women tend to participate less in classroom discussion, although participation varies with the subject matter and gender ratios...
...have generally felt for a long time that women do tend to speak less in class, and this is sadly in effect here. I, however, have not personally felt it," says Lamelle D. Rawlins '99, the Undergraduate Council secretary...
...people who are smoking it a lot, while they are smoking, tend to be lazy about things," he says...
...PEOPLE TEND TO PICK straightforward names for their pets, as with Gus, the slobbery Labrador who has been barking at former presidential candidate Phil Gramm for staying too long on the campaign trail. Lamar Alexander, though, is a cat person, and when his family acquired two new kittens last year, he dubbed them Kato and Ito, a hopeful play on the potential of fame. For the past year, as Alexander struggled to win the attention of Republican-primary voters, he would flash his chin-up smile and explain that he was "encouraged by the experience of Kato Kaelin that...
...Republican coalition is mainly made up of Talents and Lifers, then the Republicans' problem in 1996 is going to be preventing these two groups from beginning to squabble with each other. Constitutionally, Talents and Lifers are quite different types. Talents are individualistic; they tend to look upon untrammeled opportunity as the highest good. They're the opposite of mild mannered, and they are drawn to big, bold-relief political views such as the idea that taxation is theft or that abortion is murder. Lifers are conservative in the more literal sense of the word--they're not temperamentally disposed toward...