Word: tended
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...grease of custom and compromise that kept Presidents and prosecutors from getting this far in the hole. "You never want to litigate questions of separation of powers," says C. Boyden Gray, George Bush's White House counsel. "When you litigate these things rather than bargain over them, you tend to lose them...
...attack simply because their young are threatened. Lions hunt, skulking around their prey unnoticed before pouncing. Females and males are equally predatory. Yosemite wildlife-control officer Kate McCurdy recalls a Yosemite lion who sat near tents in 1994, intently watching shadows cast by people partying inside. Cougars tend to pick solitary prey; thus the lone jogger and the occasional bird watcher are in greater danger. But when lions do decide to target a group, they go after the smaller elements in the pack--children...
...funds and 401(k) accounts. Forty-three percent of adult Americans hold stocks, the broadest ownership ever. And Chris Varvares, president of the forecasting firm Macroeconomic Advisers, traces more than one-third of the growth of consumer spending last year directly to the wealth effect. Economists calculate that investors tend to spend about 4 [cents] of every dollar they gain in stock-market wealth...
Once that is determined, each college will decide how much money it will kick in from its own coffers. Public schools tend to be stingier with aid, but their fees are much lower to begin with. Private schools, on the other hand, show big numbers up front but are more likely to discount. Altogether, nearly 70% of all students receive some type of aid, including loans, and the average amount of federal money awarded to students...
Parents of the '90s tend to read this 1940 story searching for dark lessons about birth parents, surrogacy and who knows what else. But small children still love it. That's because the Mayzie vs. Horton dustup affirms what they already know: real parents are people who are dedicated and unshakably there for you, day in and day out. Period. In their limited world view, the parent-child connection is not spun from DNA. Rather, it's woven with the mundane strands of everyday life, the countless gestures, large and small, that repeatedly reaffirm: I see you, I love...