Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such tensions, even if not arising from College conditions, should come to the attention of College authorities "if unnecessary wastes of talent and educational resources are to be avoided." The increase in "outstanding" students may tend to evoke an "emotional impact of impending failure" on those students whose work is not of this calibre...
...flowmeter is in the water system, not in the bloodstream itself, further reducing damage; by ingenious servomechanisms it provides automatic control of oxygenation and acidity; it can handle up to two gallons of blood a minute, against five quarts for present models. It needs only two men to tend it. If the power fails, it keeps running. If water pressure fails, it can be cranked by hand...
...strands to accord with the current vogue for fashion models, is smaller and more nimble, does best in the slalom. They have modeled themselves on the style of Austrian men ("Only the boys have the drive and aggressiveness we want to copy," says Betsy). But having mastered style, both tend to disregard it. Says Penny: "Sometimes, when I am trying to slow down, I look like a Russian railroad track, five feet apart...
...that distorted and paralyzed Argentina's foreign trade. A fortnight ago, to help shore up the peso and make the economy more productive, U.S. Government and private banks, as well as the International Monetary Fund, announced a $329 million loan to Argentina. The loan soothed many Argentines, who tend to blame Frondizi for the discomforts of living within their means, but the program is not popular and enforcing it will take all of Frondizi's skill...
...product, the nation's No. 1 economic growth indicator, has a serious flaw. It does not allow for inflation. When prices and production are both swooping up, the G.N.P. greatly overstates the rate of growth of the U.S. economy. When production sags, it understates the drop, since prices tend to hold up. To counteract these price distortions, the Commerce Department brought out a new indicator. Henceforth, along with the regular quarterly G.N.P. expressed in dollars of current value, the department will publish a G.N.P. showing what the actual change would have been if the G.N.P. had been measured...