Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power to force wages up even when demand is falling, and 2) Big Business' tendency to eliminate price competition, set profitable "administered prices," and restrict cornpetition to quality, styling, service, etc. The combined result, says Burns, is that instead of slipping downward when demand declines, prices tend to hold steady during economic downturns, or even go on creeping upward...
...When businessmen expect government to pursue inflationary policies, they are confident of their ability to pass on higher costs in higher prices, without loss of sales volume. They tend to become 'soft' bargainers and to make inflationary wage agreements...
Kekkonnen is in a precarious position. His people like the Americans and tend to call the Russians "smelly barbarians," but, as he puts it, "Relations with the West depend on how she handles relations with the East." The West, he says, tends to regard loans from Rusisa as treason, but without them Finland will not survive. When Finnish ties with the West grow stronger, as they did last fall, Russia exerts economic pressure...
...present position at Adams, Bullitt finds that "the intellectual excitement of the dining hall arises from the fact that meals tend to be very good." Students are thus likely to spend more time at meals than in the other Houses, he continued...
...addition to giving the student acquaintance with a different area of the country, schools outside of New England tend to be easier to enter than the so-called "prestige colleges," he claimed...