Word: tended
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...question will be, Are you what we used to call a 'race man'?" Still, Lewis sees something else in the Glenn race: an emerging conservatism among young blacks--or at least a reluctance to sign up blindly with the Democratic Party. "As younger black professionals move up, they tend to move away from party affiliation. They could be up for grabs," he says. While most older blacks identify themselves as Democrats, a 1997 poll by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies found that 42% of blacks ages 26 to 35 classified themselves as independents...
Then there are the auction items like the one Steve Graham successfully bid for. Participants can attend in person or phone in or write in their bids ahead of time. Hotel companies offer auctions as well, but InsideFlyer's Petersen says the airline auctions tend to have sexier awards. Take Northwest's: since 1996, WorldPerks, the frequent-flyer program of the airline, based in Minneapolis, Minn., has conducted three bidding sessions--in Detroit, Minneapolis and at Sotheby's in New York City. No minimum bids are required, and the proceedings are open to any of WorldPerks' approximately 17 million members...
...When you're with adults [and dressed up], they tend to not treat you as a kid," he says. "It's an easy way when you're young to get respect...
...Crimson is a student-run volunteer newspaper, and these are the seemingly small errors which tend to get glossed over. Chang says, "We think we take the adequate measures to ensure that these errors don't happen more often. Even the Globe runs a couple of corrections every day. We put in more checkpoints than professional papers, because we have to." But too many small errors are adding up to big doubts about the credibility of the newspaper. And credibility is the biggest asset a newspaper can have. If a little more rigor, and perhaps even more checkpoints in editorial...
...Checchi promised not to indulge in such negative tactics, but he abandoned his pledge as soon as his candidacy stalled. Though he succeeded in driving voters away from Harman, they migrated to Davis, apparently because Checchi's ads turned off voters (those who have seen a lot of them tend to have more negative views of Checchi) and because Davis has a history of service to the state. Sixty percent of Californians say they are more likely to vote for someone who has considerable political experience. It may be a quaint notion, but a track record--crafting legislation, hammering...