Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...argument against metals controls is that agreements tend to set prices too high, make quotas too rigid. Furthermore, metals controls are easily frustrated by the discovery of new or cheaper sources of supply-or by the market dealings of a maverick. The International Tin Council ran out of cash trying to support prices in the face of Russian dumping because it set its floor price at an unrealistic level of 91¼? per lb. With the council out of support funds, the price dropped to 80? per lb., is now firming...
...this has a powerful effect even on the owners of healthy dogs: they tend to associate their pets' physical conditions with their own. Fat and underexercised themselves, they feel what Manhattan's McCann-Erickson ad agency calls "a gnawing nutritional anxiety" about their dogs. When Rival accepted this theory, it cut down fat content and upped protein, last year racked up the biggest sales increase (total sales: $12 million) in the business...
...Tend to freeze nuclear-weapons technology at the big-warhead stage, keep the U.S. from developing compact, versatile, low-fallout nuclear weapons. To provide a range of choices in between "suicide or surrender," argues Kissinger, the free world urgently needs, along with more conventional forces, a wide spectrum of low-fallout, tactical nuclear weapons...
Life & Love. Although he is neither a trained musician nor an anthropologist, Lomax has arrived at some general conclusions. For example, people in remote (often Northern) parts of continental European countries tend to "take life and love easy"; they sing in choral groups with open throats, often using frankly sexual words and lyrics. As he moved to less remote areas, Lomax found increasing "frustration and melancholy," accompanied by a nasal, constricted-throat, high-pitched style of singing that comes originally from the Orient...
...find that the opinions of some witnesses for appellants that (the church) 'would tend to destroy that harmonious attitude of Brattle Street' and would be 'out of character with the neighborhood' are of no materiality whatsoever...