Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This, said Shepard, will tend to equalize the teams' performances. Both the Crimson and Princeton JV's work from a T; beyond this there is not much on which to compare them...
...neglected amid the comings and goings of the Big Four. He journeyed on to Paris for a meeting of the NATO Council. Dulles found the West Germans perturbed that the British might weaken the Western line, or bend it, by putting up some kind of "Eden Plan" that might tend to freeze the division of Germany; the British, however, were reassuring. Out of these meetings, Dulles confirmed the support of the Europeans upon the three formal questions of the agenda...
Joseph L. Mankicwicz demonstrated his talents as a director when he picked these actors for the film and molded them into a cast. The script, which he wrote himself, shows that he was equally as skillful as an author. The dialogue does tend to run into long speeches in the early scenes, but that fault is soon balanced by a good many funny--and not inappropriate--scenes. He handled the development of characters well, too. Not until late in the last reel does the audience really know all about...
Canadians tend to regard the fluctuations of their dollar with a mixture of national pride and realistic concern. When it is at a premium in terms of U.S. funds-as it has been for 3½ years-hotelmen and other businessmen are entitled to collect extra pennies in exchange for U.S. currency, importers can happily use their own valuable dollars for purchases abroad. But the premium is less pleasing to exporters, who must sell their products for U.S. funds but pay their production costs in dearer Canadian dollars. Last week it was the exporters' turn for mild satisfaction...
...recent years-also tapered off, and Canada's adverse balance of trade was having its downward effect. The Bank of Canada last week announced an increase in its interest rate on loans to banks, from 2% to 2¼%. The change, mildly deflationary in its effect, may tend to boost the Canadian dollar again, or at least put the brakes on its slide...