Word: tended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prenowitz adds that despite the advantages of the smaller programs, they tend to create a certain isolation from the main school...
...WORLD PORTRAYED in the movie is generally depressing as things tend to move from bad to worse for all the characters. The only success story we come across is that of a crippled black man who makes it as a car thief. The minor characters--Benson's spacy yet sympathetic bride, her phrenologist-pet merchant mother, and Harry's brother--are well-portrayed, each contributing convincingly to the tapestry of Middle America fallen on hard times. Scenery of construction sites, factories and dreary Florida suburbs add to the general air of hopelessness...
...there are going to be horror stories no matter what system you have," says Peter Hoffman of the U.S. Parole Commission. At the same time, those horror stories tend to obscure the reality that both the parole system and the fixed-time approach have some advantages. A few states now appear to be trying to graft some of parole's benefits onto fixed-sentencing plans. In 1982 California legislators, for example, passed a law permitting inmates to earn reductions of up to 50% in their sentences by participating in work or study programs. That kind of early release...
...hard on the eye. Their "Annotation" (applying the techniques of history to a confusing modern document), which featured a doctor commenting upon a hospital bill, was almost laughably silly And the greatest problem is that unless their succession of short articles; tables and charts are extraordinarily compelling, they tend to vanish from the mind as soon as the page is turned...
Womack says universities tend to emphasize methods of analysis and quantification rather than the fields in which they are applied. He also blames the lack of qualified professors and teaching assistants on graduate schools accepting fewer students who have concentrated in one specific area...