Word: tended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During migration, birders tend to show up late at the office, or seem to need a day or two extra to complete out-of-town business. Even a Saturday trip to the dry cleaner's has been known to take two hours or more. In spring, Nature Writer Lola Oberman carries binoculars around her Maryland house all day, just in case a good bird appears at a window. And bumper stickers saying I BRAKE FOR BIRDS had better be taken seriously: on the highway, birders have been known to lose control when a good bird flies over. Pete Bacinski...
...attention to teeth. Johnson & Johnson's orthodontic division last week unveiled a new kind of bracket, the part of braces that affixes to the teeth. Called Starfire brackets, they are made of transparent, stain-proof sapphire. They may become an attractive alternative to clear brackets made of plastic, which tend to discolor. Traditional metallic braces, though still widely used, give some self-conscious patients the feeling that they resemble James Bond's cinematic nemesis Jaws...
Whatever the French think, Americans are not particularly immature on the subject of sex and the misdemeanors of public men. On the whole, Americans tend to look beyond the act. They examine the deed for what it tells them about the man. Americans are not simpletons of morality...
...When there is a short-fall of money at the institutional level, you tend to make offers to those who can manage with less" aid, she says...
...persuade Congress to support the contras. But Fitzwater's response was carefully hedged. Said he: "In the legal view of the White House, the President is not a part of this conspiracy." Another aide fretted about what might be next in the chain of criminal charges: "These pleas tend to set up a domino effect, with one target leading to others. We have no real idea where it's going...