Word: tended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These phrases are important to us because they name some feature of the current political landscape. They tend to stop being useful after a month or two when people realize that they have been caught acting in some readily identifiable, even cliched manner. Think about the whole political correctness debate. As soon as the term caught on, and people could be accused of being politically correct, political correctness quieted down. Soon after, people stopped using the term as often. It seems like the best way to win a fight is to label your opponent's behavior and get everyone talking...
...classroom, "girls get used to beingquiet...boys tend to be active and vocal," Drakesaid...
...Generally, people tend to perceive thatconcentrators in science are necessarily pre-med.We want to [show] that there are alternate sciencecareers that can be equally rewarding," she said...
...danger in this campaign--even for non-smokers--is that it asserts that the healthiest lifestyle is the only viable one. Should it be found that active smokers tend to live longer than sedentary non-smokers, our treasured liberty to do nothing may go the way of our liberty to smoke. Televisions could join alcohol and cigarettes by getting their very own "sin" tax. One American icon, the couch potato, might join another, the Marlboro Man, as a target of paternalism...
...Harvard's tenure policy resembles a story made up by someone with a lousy imagination, then perhaps we can hope for the deus ex machina that storytellers with lousy imaginations tend to provide. Maybe the University will notice the discontent brewing within its ranks and actually publish the details of its tenure process, so that junior scholars can at least know what to expect. Or maybe the "policy" of secrecy that Knowles holds so dear will be seen for the antiquated machine that it is, and those who stick around for the tenure process might at least be informed...