Word: tended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Four days after President Bok published his "Open Letter on Issues of Race," students said they strongly support affirmative action programs in faculty hiring and tend to favor aggressive recruitment of minority students...
...best of the peintre-décorateurs, and the longest at it, is Robert Zakanitch, 45 represented at the Whitney with a lavish and seductive canvas of two swans, heraldically conjoined at the heads, floating on a gray-green field of water and creamy lilies. But younger painters tend to settle for something lighter, stylish in a glitzy way and openly bird-brained. Beside Robert Kushner's Same Outfit, 1979, Dufy might look like Poussin...
...need a good game from his forwards to notch a win, for the Tigers have a star netminder of their own in Ron Dennis, and tend to play tight, defensive games...
...business methods-of the extraordinarily cohesive Japanese. A Japanese writer, Michihiro Matsumoto, explains one difference this way: "In the U.S., you say, 'I'm O.K., you're O.K.' In Japan, we say, 'We're O.K., therefore I'm O.K.' " The Japanese tend to identify their own welfare with that of their countrymen...
...Harrigan's shenanigans. He is assisted by an American pop economist, a rumbustious Boston newspaper editor, a skirt-chasing Turkish prof, a Swinburne-spouting I.R.A. turncoat, a high-level Treasury official with the unlikely name of Sir Olaf McConnochie - and the admirable Alyss. Though Davey's novels tend to be more whosaidits than whodunits, Treasury offers alarums and excursions aplenty...