Word: tended
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There are few reliable statistics on Hispanics involved in crimes, since states and localities tend to classify them differently. Generally, they commit proportionately more crimes than do whites and fewer than do blacks, and they are victimized in this midrange too. In California, where 16% of the population are Hispanic, they constitute 19% of the prison inmates. Like other ethnic groups, they tend to join neighborhood gangs. In Hartford, Conn., so many newly arrived young teen-agers from Puerto Rico have become victims of gang warfare that some parents have sent them back to the island for their own safety...
Distinguishing between authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, he added: "We tend to spend more time criticizing countries that are partly free, and making progress toward freedom, than those where little freedom exists." Finally, he argued, the greatest violation of human rights is the "new international terrorism, supported by various international networks." Novak concluded by promising the delegates that there would be no zigzagging on human rights by the Reagan Administration...
Base said that although the slate would tend to sympathize with union issues, if elected its representatives on the Coop's board of 23 directors would not be a rubber stamp for a union...
...group plans to invite representatives of several different sides of the South African investment controversy, Jacqueline O. Cooke '83, who attended last night's meeting, said, adding. "I tend to feel brainwashed at a 'panel' where all the opinions are the same...
...descends on the peninsula at ten in the morning and lasts past sunset--that shorts on women cause men to leer and catcall and local women to dower with contempt and derision. This is uncomfortably true: wearing shorts verges on the suicidal the farther South you go. Spaniards themselves tend, as a rule, to dress in colors that vary little from the funerial: style and colorful dress are equated with loose morals and looser living habits...