Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Catholics tend to educate their children less well, are less successful in business, according to Notre Dame Sociologist Dr. John J. Kane [TIME, Jan. 10] ? In only three fields is eminence achieved: religion, law and education. Would that America's progress were confined to the "creep" pace of religion, law and its observances and education...
...toward the land in summer as well as in winter come the undesirable hurricanes. Before 1938, said Namias, few hurricanes hit the coast north of Cape Hatteras. Most of them followed a curving track into the Atlantic. Now, with the change in the pattern of the planetary wind, they tend to cross the coastline instead of veering away from...
Speaking at the weekly Harkness coffee hour, Toepfer said that "students tend to vastly overrate the importance of their marks. Employers do not give class standings as much importance as students think they do, but they sometimes use a man's academic record as a convenient scapegoat in place of his religion, looks, poor business connections, or general personality," Toepfer added...
Three-fourths of the seniors' parents are in business or industry, and of these, 60% are on the executive level. We discovered that the students tend to follow the parental pattern: more than half the TIME-reading seniors planning business careers expect to become major executives with considerable responsibility. Only a few indicated that they would be content with a minor role and limited authority. Of the seniors aiming for business or industry, most have some definite ideas about the type of company they want to work for after graduation...
...speech to fellow bankers he said: "We are learning it is not the ideas or ideals that are at fault. It is the pitfalls of practice and application that tend to frustrate our efforts and add to our costs...