Word: tended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been coined by a condescending purist, but now the apostate sect, like up-and-coming Fauvists, revels in the name. Bill Smith, a natty, placid Harvard freshman and Kidd's teammate, suggests a continuing enmity between the offs and the ons. "Off-topic debaters," he explains, "tend to despise on-topic, because most of us were on-topic in high school. I was, for a year and a half. It's very, very intense." Burned out at 18, they seek refuge in the unruly rumble of off-topic. "Sometimes," says Sanford Cohen, an off-topic Columbia junior...
...debates tend to sound like audi tions for a road company of 7776. Arguments are nearly always flotsam-packed and comically eclectic, skittering from Burger King to Rousseau, from Bruce Springsteen to the Sudetenland. Says Gilbert: "You can't really prepare, so everything becomes important: something your mother once said, a tidbit from sociology class...
Since the Democrats control twice as many statehouses as the Republicans, they enjoyed a larger say in drafting the new districts. Moreover, federal judges have proved scrupulous in protecting minority representatives, who tend to be Democrats. The U.S. Supreme Court, for example, upheld a plan drawn by Illinois Democrats that protected the seats of three black Democratic Congressmen, despite sharp population declines in their Chicago districts; two Republican incumbents, however, were dumped into the same new district. "The rest of the state suffered because of first having to take care of those three districts artificially," complains G.O.P. Congressman Edward...
...advantage of actually commanding their services. Since any decisions the J.C.S. makes in its role of advising the Secretary of Defense must be unanimous, each member can wield a veto. Rather than continually report their disagreements to their civilian boss as they are required to do, the Chiefs tend simply to add up what each service wants, or to seek some minimum agreement with the aim, notes Jones, of "not goring anyone...
Most of the substitutes are made of potassium chloride. They may taste salty enough but can be so bitter that gourmet cooks tend to avoid them entirely. There is a possibility of danger too, according to some doctors. In very large doses, potassium can cause gastrointestinal ulcers, and for some kidney patients, more moderate doses can be lethal...