Word: tended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shoddy construction of the buildings in Armenia's cities and towns. According to Brian Tucker, acting state geologist of California who has visited Armenia, many buildings in the region are made of 8-in.-thick concrete slabs held together by metal hooks and mortar. Poorer Armenians, he says, tend to live in "very fragile, very deadly houses" made of unreinforced mud and rock. Yet geologists have long known that the region affected by the quake is interlaced with small faults in the earth's crust and has been shaken by dozens of serious tremors this century. "Where were the seismologists...
People already tend to know only about the works of Henrik Ibsen, August Strindbert and Kaut Hamsun, but there is still room for study, Mitchell says. "Along with Ibsen, [Strindberg's work] is the most over-researched area of my field, although there are nuggets yet to be discovered...
...like so many other Ec. 10 models, it doesn't work in real life. Of all the increases in the minimum wage since 1938, not one has resulted in increased unemployment. Raising the minimum wage increases the purchasing power of the poorest workers, who tend to spend most of their paychecks. The resulting boost in demand keeps the economy buoyant...
...when we were children, our feelings about intelligence are based on competitive values. Just as our economic system tends to categorize people's worth in terms of their titles or salaries, our attitudes about education tend to evaluate people's intelligence in terms of their alma maters and their grade point averages. We still have a lot to learn...
...families tend not to think about these possibilities, except at night, in bed. They seek comfort in aphorisms: "Does it make sense to avoid loving someone now because you might lose him later on? Do you stop going to the beach because summer's going to end?" They try to focus on what they have now: "He's a joy. It's wonderful having him here. This is going to be the best Christmas...