Word: tend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard to believe that these lines are coming from her own experience--but they're part of her style, and it can work either way, as distracting or amazing, depending on the reader. However, this tendency occurs only in the main characters; the lesser ones are described quite realistically, tend to have the funniest lines and serve to counterbalance the main characters through their familiarity as recognizable, "everyday" people...
While "People Like That" is the strongest piece in the entire book, the other stories, while lacking a certain degree of variety (the names of the characters and the titles of the stories tend to become muddled in one's mind, a happenstance which might be avoided had the stories been read in their individual magazine formats) nonetheless form an effective collection of nineties fiction. A wise suggestion, however, is that each story be read slowly and individually, and not the book as a whole on a beach in the summer or in front of the fireplace on a cold...
...like small annoyances, men's ill-treatment of women has serious consequences. There has never been a female president of our country, and there probably will not be for a long time. This is not because people do not view women as intellectually equal to men, but because men tend not to vote for candidates they see as sex symbols. Would you want Barbie to lead your country...
...annoying] a couple of times when I've forgotten to wear a watch," said Jen W. Thompson '02. "You tend to lose track of time in a library...
...then he drove it further. "Most school systems tend to have no standards and tons of regulations," says Ravitch. "Bush reversed the paradigm, and backed higher standards and fewer regulations, leaving districts free to teach how they want as long as they get results." He reduced the regulatory authority of the Texas education agency but increased accountability by beefing up and enforcing state standards. Most important, he started tracking results by race and ethnicity, rewarding schools that boost performance--especially minority performance. He also took on state teachers' colleges, telling them that 70% of graduates in each minority group must...