Word: tend
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...people in history and literature tend to sway a little more towards history or a little more towards literature," he says...
This problematic outcome would be further compounded by the demand-side consequences of Forbes' flat tax. Historically, supply-side tax cuts that produce budget deficits, like the Reagan tax cuts, tend to have a far greater effect on the demand-side of the economy than on the supply-side. In other words, Forbes' massive tax cut would substantially increase aggregate demand while only marginally increasing aggregate supply. The result, of course, is inflation. This higher inflation would then require the Federal Reserve to contract the money supply by raising interest rates which would also lower investment and hence long-term...
Speculation titillates the mind but usually ends by subtly demeaning the human place in the cosmic scheme. The Earth that the ancients took to be the center of the drama becomes ever more marginal, a receding speck. Astronomers' searches tend to assume that the aliens would be superior to earthlings, perhaps evolved beyond Earth's ability to comprehend them...
Even if the new planets are sterile, though, their very existence is a powerful piece of astronomical news. If our solar system is any indication, giant, unpleasant planets are likely to be accompanied by small, friendly ones. Giant planets also tend to be attended by giant moons, small worlds in their own right, and these too could be hospitable to life. Perhaps most important, the discovery of planets around three relatively nearby sunlike stars implies that the Milky Way, 100 billion stars strong, must be bursting with other worlds. Unless the chances are literally 100 billion to one against...
...breaking dried chicken bones." In effect, he turns the usual "The Japanese are so strange!" cliche inside out. Toshi's unsteady American girlfriend suddenly says things like, "You think I'm awful, don't you? I am, I'm dreadful and I'm not pretty," and, where the Japanese tend to present images of happy families, Toshi notes, Americans "offer up their unhappy childhoods like movie plots, or like gifts." All this is set against the backdrop of the Crown Prince's dating Brooke Shields, protesting farmers dumping foreign rice, and "laid-off Toyota workers burn[ing] AMERICA=AIDS into...