Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Despite their avowed desire to know all kinds of people, ministers tend to associate with leaders of the community. Their effectiveness as churchmen is impaired, more than a third of them reported, by this failure "to maintain fellowship with all groups" and by the difficulty of "loving people...
Plaids and stripes are dominant in cottons. Especially popular are the red Steward plaid and an elephant gray ombre plaid. With the exception of the Stewart, most of the current plaids tend toward muted, blackened colors. Quilted plaids are also in the running...
However, it is hard to measure exactly how effective consultants are. The hiring firms are usually closemouthed, as though they were admitting to a shameful weakness, while the consultants themselves tend to be glowing and nonspecific about their work. Often their job is in the policy area and cannot be measured in dollars and cents. But there are tangible evidences of successes. A Cresap, McCormick & Paget survey of the New York Central introduced new budget and inventory control systems, divided jobs into staff and line posts, and resulted in a payroll saving of $600,000 annually. Ernst & Ernst...
...tales of combat action have seen print. The latest, a German entry titled The Cross of Iron, is the most savagely powerful portraiture of men at war on the eastern front since Theodor Plievier's Stalingrad. Possibly because they belonged to the winning side, U.S. writers tend to see war as a personality-developing experience in which a man can forge his own identity. As a loser, the German writer must salvage for his hero both identity and meaning from a lost cause pursued beyond any rational hope of victory. Thus, in The Cross of Iron, furious hand...
...look at science only in terms of technical applications, we entirely miss the point," Victor F. Weisskopf, visiting lecturer in Physics, said last night. He claimed that people today tend to think of the scientist as a machine-man for making bombs, and in doing this, they lose the value of pure science...