Word: tended
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...saga into an obsession and virtually a life's work. Caro is one of the best known of a small breed of long-distance writers who appear from their orbits of research to offer big books on big subjects. Among others in the select group, most of whom tend to be, like Caro, journalist-scholars: Richard Kluger, author of the civil rights classic Simple Justice (1976), and J. Anthony Lukas, whose Common Ground (1985), a social history of ethnic Boston, was well worth the wait...
...their case it has been directed at their North Californian "alternative life-style" preferences such as Zen meditation and organic gardening. "Oh, you guys are so granola!" one staid neighbor told them early on. As a result, they have become gun-shy about admitting their California origins and tend to socialize mostly with other Californians. "The irony is that now I've become antigrowth myself!" Margot Grim says, laughing. "Here I am, a Californian, wishing that other Californians would stay away...
...Association says that even a minimal amount of exercise -- a brisk half-hour walk once a day is enough -- confers significant protection not only from cardiovascular disease and cancers but also against death from a wide range of other causes. Put plainly, people who exercise just a little bit tend to live longer...
Although final results will not be available for more than a week, the high turnout should tend to favor liberal council candidates and work against 1-2-3, according to Noah M. Berger '89, the executive director of the Cambridge Civic Association...
PROPONENTS bill the mortgage interest deduction as the average citizen's ticket to the American Dream--home ownership. Unfortunately, the average citizen gets only a small portion of the benefits. The mortgage interest deduction is worth far more to the rich, who are in higher tax brackets and tend to own more expensive homes...