Word: tended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Once you've been out of a college setting for a number of years, you tend to respond to situations on a hunch. Here are findings that say that many of the hunches are correct ones," says one principals...
Immigrant journalism is often colored by homeland politics. San Francisco's eight Chinese-language papers tend to side with either Taiwan or the People's Republic. The Haiti Observateur, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based weekly with a circulation of 45,000, was founded in 1971 as a challenge to Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, the country's self-appointed President for Life. All but one of California's 24 Vietnamese papers excoriate Hanoi, while the Philippine News, with 73,000 readers, opposes Ferdinand Marcos...
Among the real estate wheeler-dealers, the Chinese tend to invest in housing, the Koreans in commercial property. Indeed, just as the turn-of-the-century immigrants clustered in certain kinds of business -- the Irish in politics and policing, Jews in the textile industry -- each new national group has its common calling. The division of labor establishes new, fairly benign stereotypes. Africans, mostly young men, sell sunglasses, umbrellas and baubles from blankets spread on Manhattan sidewalks. Albanians own apartment buildings. Greeks set up coffee shops, the walls invariably decorated with murals of the Parthenon. Koreans, it seems, suddenly own every...
...heighten the sense that immigrants, especially illegal ones, take jobs away from Americans. "We could have a terrible backlash, a terrible period of repression," warns the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame and chairman of the Select Commission on Immigration that was established by Congress in 1978. "People tend to forget that twice in our lifetime, this country has rounded up hundreds of thousands of Mexicans and pushed them back over the border.* That was a terrible thing . . . but it could very well go on. Police sweeps from house to house, rounding up millions of people, pushing them back...
Many historians disagree. Hispanics, says Sheldon Maram, a professor of history at California State University at Fullerton, "are moving at about the same level of acculturation as the Poles and Italians earlier in the century. Once they've made it, they tend to move out of the ghetto and melt into the rest of society." Asians often have it easier because they come from urban middle-class backgrounds. "They are the most highly skilled of any immigrant group our country has ever had," says Kevin McCarthy, a demographer at the Rand Corp. in Santa Monica, Calif...