Word: tended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When people hear the words learning in retirement, most tend to focus on the retirement aspect," says Ishikawa. "As there is a greater need for retirement programs, obviously there will be reason to consider people's retirement needs. But we really are concentrating on being a facility for learning...
...some observers see an emerging pattern: the virus writers tend to be men in their late teens or early 20s who have spent an inordinate portion of their youth bathed in the glow of a computer screen. Scientific American Columnist A.K. Dewdney, who published the first article on computer viruses, describes what he calls a "nerd syndrome" common among students of science and technology. Says Dewdney: "They live in a very protected world, both socially and emotionally. They leave school and carry with them their prankish bent...
...voters are seeking, not romance. But enduring love, the kind that survives the unpaid orthodontist bill and the lawn grown weedy, cannot be shown on the nightly news. So the candidates will continue to confuse the Dynasty-type desire with devotion, as in this recent swipe by Dukakis: "Democrats tend to sleep in double beds. Republicans prefer twins." The body politic can live without a response to that...
...candidates tire, their game plans will begin to unravel. "The human nature of the candidates means that they can't hold a script in their minds for more than half an hour," explains Communications Professor Kathleen Hall Jamieson, co-author of Presidential Debates. "The problem is that viewers tend to get inattentive at just the point that the debate gets revealing." Award 1 point for each answer that makes sense in the first half-hour, 3 points for all coherent replies after that...
...talent. This means that she has "good feel for the water," her coach says; "the water doesn't slip off her hands." But what makes Evans a once-in-a-generation rarity is her astonishing endurance. It is hard to see where she gets all of this gristle. Swimmers tend to be sizable, but last year, when she began setting world records, she was only a smidge over 5 ft. tall, and would have had to bounce to get a scale to read 95 lbs. Since then she has grown all the way from tiny to small, to about...