Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What seemed to disturb Molotov most was the Western powers' decision to sit down among themselves next fortnight in Bermuda, when Churchill, Eisenhower and France's Joseph Laniel will get together for the first time since Ike became President. "Conferences of this kind . . . tend to put certain states in opposition to other states . . ." Molotov complained...
...that there are enough irresponsible attacks upon U.S. colleges and universities to raise the hackles on any intellectual's neck. But in their loud protests, do the intellectuals always help their own cause? In a lecture at Mills College, Riesman answered no. In Riesman's opinion, intellectuals "tend to overestimate the monolithic power of reaction...
...terror: it is the most fiercely competitive market in the world. It is almost an axiom abroad that any mass-produced article that could be sent to the U.S. is being efficiently produced by American competitors. While U.S. producers thrive on competition, most foreign businessmen shun it. Thus they tend to concentrate on basic commodities, semi-finished goods for special industrial use, or national specialties unlike any produced in the U.S.-Scotch whiskey, British woolens, French wines or Belgian lace...
...Approximately 90% of the House residents have already paid their dues. It is hoped that the list will serve as a reminder to those who have not yet done so. This is nothing new. We have found from past experience that the posting of a reminder of this will tend to encourage the sale of House cards to those who have neglected to pay their dues. Such encouragement is only fair to those who have paid their share toward the upkeep and continuation of the House services and facilities...
More fundamentally, the U.S. sees Communism as a highly mobile enemy that can strike anywhere without fear of being contained by localized balance. An American trying to estimate the intentions or reactions of the Soviet state will tend to draw his information from the theory of Marxism and the actual record of Communism. A Briton will tend to emphasize the history of Czarist Russia and to look upon Communist imperialism as a projection of the ancient Russian pressure against Europe...