Word: tend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these low-pressure systems, its winds spinning slowly counterclockwise, starts to strengthen-and that's when the trouble can begin. During late summer and fall, broad swaths of subtropical ocean can reach temperatures of 80øF or more. The warm, humid air above the ocean surface would tend to rise anyway, and when a low-pressure region drifts by, it's like taking the lid off a steaming pot. The air rushes upward, dumping its moisture and energy, which forces the winds to whirl ever faster. Meanwhile, down at the surface, more warm air rushes in to replace what...
...equal to 95% of its average per person costs in the area, adjusted for a few factors like age and sex. Nevertheless, Medicare loses money on the deal. Why? The main reason is that these are people who cost the system less than 95% of the average. Healthier people tend to be the ones who sign up with HMOS...
...relatively cheap and easy to produce. Anyone with a computer and something to say can start one. And since it costs no more to distribute 30 million copies than it does to distribute one, there's plenty of room for small niche markets that mainstream, print-based media tend to neglect...
...there be anything more tiresome than hearing--or reading--about someone else's quest for spiritual enlightenment? Such accounts always tend toward the deeply sincere and the totally humorless. Anita Desai is therefore an intrepid novelist indeed; her Journey to Ithaca (Knopf; 312 pages; $23) traces the pilgrimages of not one but three seekers after truth, spelled with a capital...
Like most of the Core, Moral Reasoning classes are uniform in structure: two or three lectures each week and a weekly section with a teaching fellow. As a result, Moral Reasoning classes tend to have the same effect as most Core classes; they're oversubscribed, watered-down and not especially meaningful to students...