Word: tended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ridder newspaper reporters. The purpose of leaks is often manipulative: to pretest public reaction to a plan, outflank a colleague or sabotage a rival policy proposal. There is an added appeal: journalists are so accustomed to treating the closed-door side of Washington as the "real" one that they tend to report unattributed information with less skepticism than they bring to public pronouncements...
...concept. After a particularly complicated dance scene at the close of "It's Delovely," Hope Harcourt (Eva Yablonsky) throws Billy (Benajah Cobb) a long grateful look.\Maybe it's love, but maybe it's because he didn't drop her. Unfortunately, the show's recurring hints of uncertainty tend to suggest the latter...
...three Achievement Test scores to the option of submitting five Achievements and no SAT--is in one sense flexible and forward-looking. Admissions studies have indicated for several years now that scores on the Achievement Tests, which are detailed exams on specific high school subjects, tend to predict freshman adacademic performance better than scores on the more general and less curriculum-based SAT. Test experts--both at Harvard and nationwide--have recently argued that the SAT reflects not verbal or mathematical "aptitude," as advertised, but rather a high school senior's lifelong exposure to good books and magazines and analytic...
...tough attendance policy has caused many members to be expelled from the council, requiring a special election in each case. "It does tend to wear on the vice-chair," said Victor G. Freeman '84, adding. "For this reason I think we ought to approve...
...this field that the peace of the past 40 years has been maintained by the controlled use of fear. The horror of nuclear war has greatly troubled every President, and yet all of them since 1945 have conditioned themselves to plan nuclear strategy coolly and prudently. The experts tend to agree that too much fear in the Oval Office would warp judgments and make crises more likely...