Word: tended
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...directions when driving, say, or how women need to talk to feel closer. Says Tannen: "I suppose if I had wanted to build an empire I would be resentful, but I didn't." Gray acknowledges the similarities between his work and Tannen's--up to a point. "I do tend to skim all the best sellers," he admits. "I've heard criticism that I'm just a watered-down version of Deborah Tannen. [But] I was teaching those ideas before I'd heard...
Although Xers tend to be more liberal and Democratic than the general population--53% voted for President Clinton, vs. 34% for Bob Dole--12 years of growing up under Reagan and Bush imbued them with a distrust of government. "The do-it-yourself, no-one-is-going-to-look-out-for-me-but-me spirit among Xers is a product of coming of age when that was the message coming from the Administration," says Mia von Sadovsky, 29, an ad-agency researcher. "We have hard-wired into us a different approach to getting things done." A survey by Third Millennium...
...progeny is no accident. A Penn State study found that the stocks of 161 spin-off companies between 1965 and 1990, on average, rose 76%, vs. a market average of only 43%, over three years. Why? Often spin-off companies become more focused, and because they are smaller they tend to have greater ability to grow rapidly. Meanwhile, there is little evidence that giant mergers create great wealth for shareholders. Just ask AT&T. It paid $7.4 billion for NCR Computer in 1991 and soon gave up on the acquisition, spinning it off to shareholders as part of another split...
...economists found that students who graduated from Penn will most likely earn 56.6 percent more than if they only receive a high school diploma. However, students tend to earn only 37.1 percent more if they graduates from a top-notch public university, according to the article...
...ratings in the small classes tend to be pretty high because the students in them need to get recommendations from the professor, and so they're not going to tear them apart," Larson says...