Word: tend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more affluent schools tend to be schools that disproportionately have the resources," Fitzsimmons says. "The opportunity structure is very unequal...
...Good students tend to cluster, not at random, as it were, at secondary schools across the country," Fitzsimmons says. "When a school gets a reputation for having a lot of students accepted to Harvard, the top students will want to go to that school. More graduates will get in, attracting better students...
...Orthodox Jews have spent their lives living in relatively stable Jewish communities. They tend to be the most comfortable at Hillel," says Guy Maytal '97, a member of the Conservative minyan. "For people who are not as used to being in a Jewish group, it is hard to get involved at first...
...problem of the chicken or the egg," she adds. "The people who are in the building the most tend to be the most involved, and these are the people who run, and rightly deserve to be elected...
...paintings tend to be objects: thick wooden boards, never canvas, and heavily framed. The paint is constantly reworked--not fiddled with, but glazed and obliterated over the years by successive coats. Each is a palimpsest, one improvisation partly burying another but leaving hints of it behind. Pigment covers the frame as well as the board, wanting to overrun the confines of surface. Even when Hodgkin's paintings are on the wall, you think of picking them up, the small ones especially, and hefting them in your hand. Dense, resistant lumps of color, real things in the real world--a status...