Word: tend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think our students tend to be the kind of people who get intensely involved in just about anything," he says...
...Students tend to define themselves by others' expectations. When students avoid addressing these problems, the burnout escalates, according to Ducey...
...interviews end at 7 p.m., but work won't be over for two more hours. While partners and senior staffers tend to leave the office early to rejoin their families, young analysts burn the midnight oil. The hours are enormously variable, they say. "You're here as late as you want to be--you work until you're done, basically," one associate says. Some night analysts leave early enough to see the sun go down, but at other times they must stay until 2 or 3 a.m. Shemmer says he sleeps about six or seven hours a night--far less...
Since this is Clinton - whose public passions notoriously tend toward the convenient - and since he is on the record as a vociferous promoter of free trade, the hand-wringing over labor and environmental raises the question: Are the President's concerns genuine or merely politically expedient? "A lot of Clinton's concern is genuine," says Dowell. "As the mayor of Seattle noted, many Clinton administration officials were protesters themselves not so long ago." And, says Dowell, he is wise to acknowledge the misgivings harbored by many of the protesters. "Clinton accomplished something critical in his speech," says Dowell. "He made...
...Services Globalization has dramatically expanded potential international markets for everything from banking and credit to insurance, telecommunications and travel. Developing countries tend to resist opening up those sectors of their economies to international competition...