Word: tend
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Certainly, sports-writing can tend to be melodramatic. But how the Ryder Cup has managed to galvanize such a large segment of the American populace--the event was front page news across the country--is beyond me. According to NBC, a record 55 million viewers tuned in to watch the trans-Atlantic battle of our country clubs' finest. Add to that the 30,000 fans who gathered a dozen-deep to wave and cheer America...
Cambridge's public elementaries tend to provide the small class sizes, various specialized programs and personal student attention that parents crave...
...main message is that the Congress recognize that a healthy science policy requires a broad-based portfolio," Casey said. "There seems to be broad support for health research, and members of Congress tend to think NIH takes care of that...
...Boomers. Two or three presidential elections with Fifties Guys as candidates would have provided a soothing way of putting off such harsh subjects as coke snorting and draft dodging until we'd had time to gain the perspective that comes with a little distance--soothing because Fifties Guys tend not to have engaged in any youthful misbehavior interesting enough for anyone to bother revealing...
Otus has another problem. The women she does hire--and they are mostly women--tend to be well dressed and attractive. And sometimes that leads to romance with wealthy male clients. "If you've got executives and attractive single women, they're going to get together," she says. "Steve Ballmer of Microsoft married his p.r. person, and Ken Jacobs at Oracle married the head of p.r. for his company." It's another beautiful virtuous cycle...