Word: tended
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...environments and conditions. If people find it easier to make themselves understood by saying something in a slightly new fashion, such innovation will survive depending on its effectiveness and usefulness. Thus we see the application of the survival of the fittest theory to language. Changes in language that tend to obfuscate are generally the products of governments and their instruments, precisely the institutions Gerber would have institutionalize his linguistic "improvements...
Unfortunately, poor Blacks are extremely visible because they often live in neighborhoods adjacent to business districts. Other Blacks tend to live in dispersed pockets in more affluent parts of cities and suburbs, but because Blacks make up a small part of the population anyway, their numbers in these areas aren't noticed...
...their minds a perfect dream of what Israel should be and imagine that it really is that," he said in a recent interview. "I think those people get very angry with reporters who tell them otherwise....A lot of people who haven't really dealt closely with Israel tend to imagine Israel as an entire country of highly educated Western Jews where every colonel is a chess master and every general plays the violin...
...economists who highlight this phenomenon tend to be liberals; many of them blame the Reagan Administration for failing to help Middle Americans adapt to the postindustrial age. Millions of citizens, they contend, have lost their middle-class jobs in aging industries like autos and steel and have plunged into the minimum-wage realm of floor mopping and hamburger flipping. By failing to halt the middle-class shrinkage, the argument goes, the U.S. could allow itself to become a two-tiered society of rich and poor. Declares M.I.T. Economics Professor Lester Thurow: "Wherever one looks, one now finds rising inequality...
...reason for concern is that without ozone, life on earth would be impossible. Ozone is oxygen but in an unusual form. Most oxygen comes in two- atom molecules, but external energy -- in this case, the sun's ultraviolet radiation -- can split some of them apart. The single oxygen atoms tend to attach themselves to the remaining molecules, forming an oxygen-atom triplet. The result: a layer, from six to 30 miles up, of ozone-enriched air. Once formed, an ozone molecule is a good absorber of ultraviolet. But when CFCs rise to the ozone layer, sunlight decomposes them, releasing...