Word: tend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think sometimes people tend to become more motivated [by the display of the letters] when they don't succeed with some firms," Atwan said...
Increasing minority hiring can also help business. First Chicago Bank's Barr says she believes customers tend to choose banks where they find the comfort of employees who "look like" them. She cites a sense of security when people see others of their ethnicity who have been successful...
...There is a letdown after [the holidays]," he says. "People tend to anticipate [the holidays] with all the hype, and then after it is over with, [there is nothing to take its place...
...Iowa's 2,142 precincts he's deemed necessary to win. Less than a month before the big night, Forbes has 26 county chairs signed on and 750 volunteer precinct workers, as well as a professional phone bank making 4,000 calls for him daily. Forbes supporters tend to be mainly independents and moderates with weak party ties who are younger than Dole's or Gramm's backers by at least 10 years and less likely than the diehards to haul themselves to a caucus on voting night. "My observation," says Gramm's pollster, Linda DiVall, "is that the Forbes...
...Some medical facilities also fear that they will be put in the role of inquisitor, forced to ask girls who seek pregnancy services about the identity of the partner. And Jeannie Rosoff, president of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, cautions that when it comes to sex, things like blame tend to get a little murky. "You cannot automatically condemn the man," she says. "The girl could have lied about her age. You really don't know what happens in those transactions...