Word: tend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Order cuts to the heart of the problems underlying the mainstream media's coverage of the presidential election process. His analysis is as persuasive as it is pessimistic; he argues that the press has failed miserably in its role as the organizing mechanism in recent campaigns because news reports tend to ignore policy themes in favor of the horse-race aspect of the political contest...
...tend to be a person who works best under pressure," Hemsey says...
YOUR ARTICLE ILLUSTRATED A MAJOR problem in the way we select the American President. Many voters tend to concentrate on a single issue and choose for office a candidate who embodies that lone ideal. However, the President has many roles to play, and when a candidate is selected because he embraces a certain policy, he can disappoint the public on other, less prominent policies. Single-issue voters are often surprised by the direction things take after they vote a President into office, when they learn his entire agenda. JOSEPH ROTUNDA San Antonio, Texas Via E-mail...
Despite Dartmouth's apathetic atmosphere, student political activism exists in small pockets. These groups tend to organize around a particular cause, campaign, party or academic department that deals with public policy...
...school's most vocal conservatives tend to gravitate toward the Dartmouth Review, an independently-funded newspaper which Mace calls "a bastion of not only conservative intellectual thought but also of dignity and tradition, the cloth that binds our society...