Word: tended
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...opportunities depend on the success of their particular political persuasion. "Harvard professors were quite actively involved in the early '60s when a local boy was president," Richard E. Neustadt, Littauer Professor of Public Administration, who worked in the State Department during the Johnson years, notes, adding that "different candidates tend to have different experts on whom they tend to depend." Economits never seem to have trouble finding work to fill their spare time...
Most professors would argue that this problem is not so serious because people tend to do research in their areas of study. But Zeckhauser sees the danger that consulting opportunities may actually determine where a professor devotes his academic time, especially in lucrative and open fields such as genetic engineering. Another potential risk is that professors might abuse University resources. Because the Faculty has no pay scale for graduate students, professors could compete for the best and the brightest, giving an advantage to the faculty member with the accessibility to the most funds...
...Across universities and fields, black students tend to be about 1 to 1 1/2 standard deviations below whites on test scores and significantly lower on grades as well. Both blacks and whites may notice this pervasive disparity. In theory, this may be an undesirable result of affirmative action at universities like Harvard. If elite universities did not compete so heavily for blacks these students might attend slightly lesser institutions where they might compete as intellectual equals. Conceptually one might even imagine a ripple effect, where blacks would end up academically equal to whites at all but the very bottom institutions...
...Some loans may help to preserve the status quo, but others better the condition of Blacks. Why can't we differentiate?" Putnam said. "I am puzzled by the way students tend to paint all of these things with the same broad brushstrokes...
...They showed me Harvard--they didn't just show me the pool." Hackett recalled. He urged the University to continue its practice of not awarding financial aid on the basis of athletic talent, but said that Harvard swimming "is becoming very hard-core. People tend to forget what they're here...