Word: tended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University of Cincinnati study found that problematic computer users tend to be most mesmerized by interactive pursuits--frequenting chat rooms and other multiuser domains, writing e-mail, surfing the Web, playing games. These can serve as a haven for workers from procrastination, boredom and feelings of isolation at work; the fantasy world they offer can be an attractive alternative to the daily grind. "It's an altered state of reality," reports Young. "It's like a drug rush." Depression, she and others believe, can be a result of--not the cause of--compulsive computer use: after someone has been parading...
...court, a secret and hidden organization moving along at a slow pace with each procedure being delayed by bureaucracy, hiring incompetent and often corrupt employees and mistreating them. Yet there is a contrast that clearly emerges between K. and anyone associated with the court. The court employees and lawyers tend generally to be poor, unhappy or sickly. K., on the other hand, is well off, holds a prestigious job at a bank, is confident of his abilities and generally pleased with his own behavior. Invited to the court for the first time, K. discovers with an emotion akin to condescension...
...find that when I train I tend to do better in school" Rakow says. "You need a stress release. It's a great way to learn to focus and to keep that focus...
Group formation and identity is one of those confusing, complex issues that undergraduates tend to either ignore or leave to abstract, overindulgent conversations in Government or Moral Reasoning Section. Perhaps the only time that students think seriously about group formation and how it applies to their experience at the college is during the dreaded blocking time for first-years in which they scramble to pare down their 30 friends into a legitimate 16-person blocking group. I doubt that this college has ever seen the month of March pass by in the Yard without hurt feelings and irrevocably broken friendships...
...There's a lack of really readable journals on campus. Many publications are so focused, and they're wonderful...but they tend to read like term papers... Ours will be much closer to The Crimson," Shetty said...