Word: tended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many progressive Frenchmen would dearly like to see more business leaders like Arnault. Born in Roubaix, in northern France, he graduated from Paris' elite Ecole Polytechnique with a degree in engineering. Perhaps because of their rigid educational system, the French tend to produce civil servants and middle managers, but entrepreneurial brains who would enliven the business climate are few. The success of Arnault, who spent three years working on real estate deals in Florida during the Socialist reign of Francois Mitterrand, has stirred up resentment and distrust among his peers...
...nothing new--we've had problems before. We've been aware for a while that BGLTSA posters tend to have very short lifetimes," she said...
...result was that most people in Hong Kong now tend to identify growth in China with security in Hong Kong. This view, of course, has an inevitable flip side for the public. Calls for democracy, individual freedom and civil rights risk being labeled "uncooperative" or "subversion" to smooth transition, because it seeks to bring the whole issue of "One Country, Two Systems" and self-government into practical, negociable terms as opposed to the more abstract talk in earlier years...
...women who were radical about race in the 1960's have often become much more conservative about race," Goodman said. "These people tend to think about racial inequality less in terms of sociology and history, and more in terms of the pathology and individual behavior of African-Americans...
...show's new direction will be groundbreaking not only for having a gay lead character, but for having a gay lead character who is not yet entirely comfortable with her sexuality--a departure from the normal run of things in the '90s, when gay characters on TV tend to be proud, assertive and more or less uplifting. It's surely not happenstance that Melrose Place's Matt is the only character on the show with any kind of grace or nobility, nor that a pair of secondary lesbian characters on Friends have the most stable relationship on the show...