Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because President Eisenhower's interests tend naturally to foreign policy, most of the work curtailment has come in the field of domestic affairs. One result is that he plays little part in the early stages of formulating policy. Example: the Interior Department has almost completed an antirecession public-works plan that will cost about $80 million. This would mean a major reversal of last year's budget-conscious policies. The plan will soon hit the President's desk, and he will make the final decision. But he has not participated in any of the earlier discussions...
...clubs which, like all stereotypes, fail in many individual instances. They are, however, more reliable, on the whole, than the images connected with the respective Harvard houses. Thus, the campus "doers" or activity men are apt to be found in Cap and Gown or Quadrangle, and athletes tend to turn up, according to their inmost natures, either in Tiger Inn, the lair of "the gentlemen jocks," or in Cannon, home of "the sweaty ones." The captain of this year's football team, however, is in Ivy, which always has its pick of the entire class...
...prescribing ice packs for a man with a chill. The poll snowed that 1) well-heeled U.S. consumers are more reluctant to make big purchases than they were a year ago, and 2) the reluctance stems largely from discontent with high prices. Reuther's wage boosts would tend to push prices upward, making consumers even more reluctant to buy. And for workers who did not share in the new round of raises, the higher prices would mean a decrease in real purchasing power...
Scolio Club. Each year the Hospital for Special Surgery handles 30 to 40 scoliosis cases-about half of them of unknown cause, most of the others resulting from paralytic polio. The polio cases tend to be more severe because other parts of the body are also weakened; usually a greater part of the spine has to be fused, often in a series of operations. But post-polio cases are already becoming markedly less common, thanks largely to the success of the Salk vaccine...
...added that, on the other hand, several department members feared the small number of Economics summas awarded might tend to reflect badly on the field's students and faculty in the eyes of the rest of the University...