Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lundberg's theory is that radioactive substances tend to work their way up to the surface from deep within the earth...
...large amount of corporate help covers just tuition, about half the cost of putting a student through school. Educators are also concerned about the sporadic nature of donations-a flood in high-profit years, a trickle in bad. Furthermore, too many contributions are donated for specific scientific projects which tend to unbalance the college as a whole by building up one department at the expense of the others. Universities need unrestricted funds...
...creative role of large business organizations, he insisted that what looks at any moment like restraint of trade may be necessary for the encouragement of competition, as it has actually functioned in the economy. In most industries, Schumpeter concluded, practices which appear to restrain trade in the short run tend to promote dynamic advance in the long...
...automatic flexibility in the social security program during periods of recession. As payrolls decrease, the contingency could be drawn upon in lieu of tax increases to cover increased benefit disbursements. As the economy recovered and payrolls increased, the contingency fund could be built up again. Thus, the fund would tend to exert a stabilizing influence on the economy. The present 19 billion dollar contingency fund under such an arrangement might be permitted to rise somewhat in line with the growth in the economy...
...Union, Lindsay & Grouse once brightly mated politics and humor; they have been less successful matchmakers with politics and thrills. They have staunch allies in Actress Cornell and an able cast-including Felix Aylmer as the British delegate; they start off with a genuinely promising first act. After that, things tend to halt at times, and at others to go downhill. The play's serious side, too solemn for a suspense yarn, is too superficial for anything else. To keep really alive, the play should have clung like a leech to its corpse...