Word: tended
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When Mao launched his devastating Cultural Revolution in 1966, Hu was one of its first victims. With Deng, he was branded a "capitalist reader." Both men were stripped of power for nearly a decade. Hu was sent to a re-education camp, where he was obliged not only to tend cattle but to eat and sleep with the sheep and horses...
...manual workers now receive between four and five vacation weeks annually. Explains Benjamin Roberts, professor of industrial relations at the London School of Economics: "Employers in the U.K. have found it difficult to resist demands for longer holidays because they have seen them in effect in Europe. American employers tend to look at the cost-effectiveness of vacations and therefore take a stronger line...
Unlike their workaholic American cousins, Europeans tend to see lengthy vacations as somehow part of the natural order of things. Thus unions are sometimes willing to accept a management offer for increased vacation time instead of a rise in hourly pay rates. As an official of Britain's Transport and General Workers' Union puts it, "What has normally happened is that the union has gone in to negotiate a 35-hour week and come out instead with a longer holiday...
...ticker in mortal distress. He will lie there-at first in pain, later in death-for most of S. O. B. That is because it is his misfortune to have been taking his exercise in the world capital of self-absorption, the beach at Malibu, where movie people tend their tans, mend their deals and bend their minds with all sorts of curious additives. Dying is something that happens to your friend's act in Vegas or your rival's picture in Gotham. It is acceptable as metaphor, inconvenient as reality, something to be ignored in the hopes...
...similar grant does to a small group, such as an off-off-Broadway organization. "Where individual foundations (for example, the Charles E. Culpepper Foundation, or the Artists Foundation) are more likely to support experimental works." Frank Rich '71, chief drama critic for The New York Times, says, "Private supporters tend to play it safe and support works that reflect their tastes in general. The public relations value of such supporters tend to play it safe and support works that reflect their tastes in general. The public relations value of such support for corporations cannot be underestimated." Papp agrees with both...