Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admits that relations are sometimes strained, because, "faculties tend to look askance at administrators of all kinds, wishing for the time when the university's wheels will go round automatically, as we like to think they did long ago, in the days which deans were less numerous and administrative offices took less space...
...conflict is not based purely on prejudice, he admits, for "faculties are conservative bodies, and tend to oppose change so long as things appear to be going satisfactorily," while he sees himself as an administrator, whose job is to "anticipate trouble...
...week's end, Georgia's George summed up the situation with cool wisdom: "I am satisfied that if and when a very big move comes through the islands, the President will have to act . . . [But] it certainly does not tend to advance the cause of peace or promote stability for the President to be pressured into an announcement. I do not believe it is wise for any group, right or left, to press the President into a statement of rigidity which will leave no flexibility...
Playful Japanese husbands tend to find this coy secrecy infinitely charming, but hardhearted Japanese tax collectors are less pleased by it: Suspecting, that many a plump income lurks behind the kimonoed coquetry of their nation's 29,065 licensed geishas, the taxmen have evolved a system whereby a geisha's income is estimated on the basis of the time she spends at work. Those suspected of earning more than $500 a year are taxed as high...
...millions of consumers stretching from Michigan to Massachusetts believe that regulation at the wellhead does tend to keep prices down. Before the hearings are over, the committee expects to listen to many a formidable argument for regulation...