Word: tended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials say "fiduciary responsibility" to at least not lose money makes alternatives to the current proposal impossible. They add that no substitute plan has been designed. These arguments tend to cloud the issue at Craigie: Harvard will make money with the property whatever is done. It is a question of how much and over what period...
...long it would take to develop a working antimissile system: "Fission was discovered late in 1938, and the first atomic bomb exploded in the summer of 1945. To my mind, our job today is comparable; perhaps more difficult, perhaps more easy. I tend to be an optimist...
...perversity of nuclear weapons-and practically an article of faith among those who must think about how to prevent their use-that defensive systems can be every bit as treacherous as the offensive ones they are meant to counter. The reason is that in theory, strategic defenses would tend to upset the balance of terror and increase the chance...
...sympathies. She visits the body dumps of El Playon and Puerta del Diablo, where many of the disappeared turn up dead and disfigured. She peeks into the tallies of the weekly "grim-grams" that the U.S. embassy in San Salvador sends to Washington. She discovers that statistics and categories tend to be slippery in this part of the world...
...James Henry, a management consultant with McKinsey & Co. in New York City. "In fact, it is the white middle class, middle-and upper-income people like doctors, lawyers, the self-employed, landlords, people trading on the stock market, who still account for the lion's share." Tax evaders tend to have other characteristics in common. They are more often male than female, younger rather than older-and above average in education...