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Word: tended (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overall, Harvard students were noticeable in their absence. "Turnout is fairly low," Smith said, adding that registered Harvard students tend to vote at half the rate of Cambridge residents in his precinct...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: Quincy House Serves as Poll | 3/9/1988 | See Source »

...very open-minded," Tri-Captain Barb Keffer says. "She listens to her assistants' suggestions and the players' suggestions. She's quite different from many coaches, who tend to be authoritarian...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Curing the Basketball Blues | 3/8/1988 | See Source »

...ought to be able to choose the way you sound as well. The problem with sounding Southern, she says, is that it suggests certain stereotypes. A lot of outsiders have formed their ideas about the South through prolonged contemplation of Hee Haw and The Dukes of Hazzard. These ideas tend to be long on pickup trucks and short on Faulkner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Chattanooga: How Not to Talk like a Southerner | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...lose U.S. aid, trade preferences and other economic benefits. There is particular pressure in Congress to punish Panama and Mexico. This week President Reagan is expected to decertify Panama. Mexico, however, will probably receive only warnings and be exempted from economic sanctions on the ground that greater punishment might tend to destabilize it and thus thwart U.S. security interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Drug Thugs | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...Boston: "There is persuasive evidence that a low-fat diet can help prevent, and even treat, heart disease, hypertension and diabetes. I'm of the school that holds that low-fat diets also reduce the risk of colon and breast cancer." At the very least, Gorbach notes, vegetarians tend to be thinner than meat eaters, and that alone is beneficial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Vegetarians Hit the Fern Bars | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

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