Word: tended
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Rossiter answered that "contract services tend to be faceless, they tend not to show any care for their help." He said hiring franchises means money goes to a company rather than to a locally-run operation...
When black and women students are faced with the issue of race or gender during tests, their blood pressures tend to rise. According to Steele, this physical change confirms that the issue of stereotypes causes agitation to the students, resulting in lower test scores...
...fundraising scandals also tend to marginalize the importance of supporters' volunteer work. These scandals are a reminder that some politics is global, not local. For the hundreds of hour I volunteered to the campaign, I didn't make nearly as much difference as Al Gore could have in ten seconds of conversation with Chinese donors. As an activist, this is a disconcerting and unsettling thought...
These stories make clear what the longer expanses of his novels tend to obscure: Stone is, for all the glittery bleakness of his plots and settings, at heart a metaphysical writer, intensely interested--as was Flannery O'Connor--in the fate of people who cannot find a reason for their existence. The husband in Helping who falls off the wagon tries to defend himself by attacking his religious wife: "Sometimes I try to imagine what it's like to believe that the sky is full of care and concern." The remark wounds, as intended, but the speaker...
Enterprising hotel operators should copy the decor of the Lincoln Bedroom several times and rent the rooms to anyone who can pay for them. Perhaps political parties and foreign countries could rent blocks of the rooms for their friends. Of course, these duplicate accommodations would tend to diminish the prestige of that bedroom in the White House, which could even add several trailers on its grounds. Then social climbers could claim to have spent a night in the "Lincoln Bedroom" at the White House but not necessarily in the White House. CHARLES F. NELSEN Oakhurst, California...