Word: tended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bands enjoy a "captive audience" and they "tend to overlook this and think that they have some First Amendment right to do pretty much as they please." Bok said...
...walks like a sailor, which he once was, elbows extended and his legs spread as he lopes along. He has a small mouth that gives him a puckish look, even though, at 59, his hair is thinning and his chin has doubled. His round brown eyes and arched eyebrows tend to make him look perpetually surprised. But Helms knows exactly how to behave. "I'm a lousy politician," he says, in his best humble-pie manner, "and a terrible speaker...
Generalizing about M.B.A.s is ultimately a little like generalizing about Bulgarians or trumpeters. In many cases, the differences between them and everyone else (including the salary differential) tend to fade, like the colors of a chameleon, after a few years in the corporate world. Others, however, seem permanently tinted, chameleons that have mysteriously evolved into some slightly more agile species of lizard. Robert Almon, for example, wears the predictable colors: pink Oxfordcloth shirt, blue-and maroon-striped necktie, gray suit, black loafers as polished as medieval armor. One of six children of a Rhode Island family (his younger brother plays...
...turnover in the early years," says Carl Hartnack, board chairman of the Security Pacific National Bank. "Some think they can go to Xerox and become president overnight, but without training this is ridiculous." Adds Thomas B. Hubbard, founder and chairman of THinc., a New York consulting firm: "They tend to be more loyal to their personal careers than to any company. So although they have made some companies better, they have also made them more vulnerable...
...lose out on the contract? The students tend to divide, with a significant number feeling that the main responsibility is to one's own employees. But the majority usually seems to feel that the influence of bribery on the Japanese is the greater factor here...