Word: tended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...varsity baseball players at the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Portal thinks he knows why. ; In last week's New England Journal of Medicine, Portal and fellow Researcher Paul Romano reported that it's mostly a matter of eye-hand dominance. The better pitchers -- and poorer hitters -- tend to have a dominant, or favored, eye and hand on the same side. But good hitters have crossed dominance: the preferred eye and hand are on opposite sides. Confusing? Not really. A pitcher needs to be able to sight along the line of a pitch. On the other hand, a lefthanded...
...aggressive -- gung ho -- it's really kind of frowned upon. Whereas, in America, they appreciate that. In fact, it's a prerequisite to getting around. For everybody on the street, every day is a competition." One national trait troubles him: "People in the U.S. tend to value a sport or a sportsman exactly according to how much money is involved. In adjacent arenas, if Carl Lewis and Ben Johnson were running for a $1,000 prize, and six monkeys were racing for $10 million, which place do you think would be filled? Honestly, if Jesse Owens and Jim Thorpe were...
...score of Lennons, each one a man highly congenial to your source." This problem with evidence suggests why Goldman wrote The Lives, rather than The Life, in his title. The complications do not end here. Those eyewitnesses to facets of Lennon's life who cooperated with Goldman tend to be granted credibility and gentle treatment; those who refused to talk, most notably Yoko, are in for some rough handling. And another, major obstacle faced the Lennon biographer-to-be: John's story from his birth up to the dissolution of the Beatles, toward the end of 1969, has been endlessly...
Although authorities refuse to admit officially that homosexuality exists in China, they tend to regard homosexuals as criminals. Police have closed down at least one bar that had become a hangout for gays in Shenzhen. "Usually, acts of homosexuality are treated as acts of hooliganism," reports Liu. His advice for handling such sexual taboos: face them realistically, rather than with superstition and criminal penalties. "We want to expose people to the germ to increase their resistance to the disease," he says...
...Quit," says James Koval, a therapist who counsels couples in Long Beach, Calif. "We as a society are focused on a product, and that product is a partner. To make a decision about leaving a relationship is extremely tumultuous because of the total sense of loss." Unwed couples also tend to hide their private violence from others -- perhaps even more so than marrieds. Says Abbie Meyering, a Dallas psychologist: "Violence runs from the light of day. By the time the aggression erupts, there's very often a high level of isolation, dependence and fear about letting it become public...