Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Second, the cloak of security is all too often used to hide mistakes and inefficiency instead of genuinely confidential material. No one has ever gotten into trouble for over-classifying material, so the bureaucrats responsible naturally tend to err on the side of caution...
Young teachers, Spindler said, come from middle class homes, and tend to hold "traditional" values. They accent absolute moral standards and the sanctity of the individual. The "educational subculture" of schools of education, by contrast, stresses social adjustment, Spindler stated...
Dean Bundy stressed that unless Harvard took the lead in providing a solution to the financial straits of higher education that other institutions would tend to relax...
...English Professor Charles Shattuck complains : "A secondhand bookstore wouldn't be supported in this town." Says Joseph Baker, professor of English at the State University of Iowa: "Even the intellectuals do not read as much as they did a generation ago, and those who make literature their specialty tend to be Alexandrian-they talk of form, metaphor, style, leaving the important matters to sociology and psychology...
...goes without saying that the incident was regrettable, but those who raise strident demands for hasty and drastic punitive action tend only to compound the wrongdoing. It is all too easy, in the heat of outrage, to lose sight of the basic principles of justice...