Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prime missionary target, has been largely closed by war or Communism for the past two decades. But it is not the only reason. While there are five times as many Catholic priests, nuns and brothers in Latin America as there are Protestant churchmen and women, the Catholics must tend their already established flocks, while Protestants can put more time and money into missionary work. Protestant missionaries supply remote outposts with their own airlines (TIME, Jan. 6), run their own radio networks, gave away free nearly 5,000,000 Spanish-and Portuguese-language Protestant Bibles in 1956 alone...
Chief complication is keeping the gyro platform absolutely stable and unaffected by gravity; it tends to drift. Such forces as bearing friction and the rotation of the earth itself tend to tilt the platform out of line. On the Nautilus the system apparently worked without significant drift for the full 96 hours under the ice, and eventually the Navy hopes for accuracy up to 90 days at a time...
Most of the women who work at contestant-collecting claim that the job requires only one real talent: the ability to recognize a phony. "But the one thing we always notice," says one Lawson rival, "is that people tend to change like Jekyll into Hyde the minute they win 25 bucks. They go kind of nuts with that carrot in front of 'em. They win something and boom! All the things you picked 'em for go out the window. All they're thinking about is the damned money...
...cover expected budget deficits, and also has to refinance $46 billion in maturing securities. This formidable financing chore comes at a time when yields on recent U.S. bonds are sharply rising. If Anderson raises the coupon rate on forthcoming issues to match the competition from older bonds, he will tend to raise all interest rates. Such a course might well nip the general business recovery. At the same time, unless Anderson takes this chance, he can hardly hope to get the money he needs...
...dispel the false allegations that there is aggression being carried on by the U.S. or by the United Kingdom in the Middle East. It would, on the other hand, I think, show the danger of indirect aggression, which has been so often condemned by the U.N. Thereby it might tend to stabilize the political situation which in turn would make it easier to develop economic programs for the benefit of the people . . . There is no use getting into the details of economic projects if the [Middle East] governments are going to live under a constant threat of indirect aggression, assassination...