Word: tended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Working from TIME'S New York bureau, Correspondent Ken Banta questioned attorneys who have argued before the Supreme Court, as well as academics who sift the court's opinions for portents of its direction. Observes Banta: "Legal "scholars tend to frame the court's decisions in terms of constitutional history and competing principles. Practicing lawyers are more pragmatic. They look at the Burger Court and ask: 'Which kind of case could I win before it? Which Justices would I try to sway...
...people who come here tend to be sharp and vibrant in the beginning, with past successes suspended from their belts like scalps. Getting on, they want to clear out of the way before anybody perceives them as holding up traffic. So they pay a generous sum to enter and a healthy monthly stipend to stay; these spent funds preserve dignity, purchase perpetual care. In their day, they had attended their own parents until the end came, usually in an upstairs bedroom. Their children are aware of that and are slightly ashamed. For their part, the parents are enormously relieved...
...interview a day after the Center's seminar, he said, "People were talking about exchange programs yesterday. I didn't want to be a wet blanket, but Americans tend to turn to the right when they visit Russia. There are so many aspects of the system that are frustrating and outrageous...
Koivemaki lauded the Hare process, which is also used by the Cambridge City Council, saying, "the beauty of the system is that when the ballots are counted, they tend to reflect minority and majority positions to the extent which they are represented in the electorate at large...
...communities that would wither away should the mines close-he deserves an audience. For all his demagoguery and suspect tactics, Scargill is right in his indignation towards a government that does not look out for its own. If there is any legitimate government regulation, surely it must be to tend to those, who must temporarily suffer from economic shifts and prevent progress from becoming a tyranny of the balance sheet...