Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington, many have been committed to "comparative isolation in official exile," and "only 2% of the home desks are presently occupied by them." One man with 43 years of service has had only 13 months of home duty. Said the report: "Men immersed continuously in other societies inevitably tend to lose touch with the circumstances and attitudes that shape national policy at home. Their outlook, their judgment of changing factors of national concern, and finally their sense of urgency ... cannot escape being altered." ¶"Absence of strong administrative leadership" is the key reason for "sinking morale" at State...
...farm employment was off slightly this May, he noted the average work week had increased by three-tenths of an hour. Factory orders for durable goods are on the rise, and "are behaving in a most encouraging fashion . . . The rate of decline in inventories has diminished. This will tend to lift production." The latest figures from the Commerce Department showed that for all of 1954, outlays for new plants and equipment should equal 1953's $28 billion, instead of dropping 4% as a previous survey had indicated...
...Educational Policy Committee's new plan for a wide system of advanced standing and placement continues this tradition. The proposals fall only where they tend to make education a three-year process by providing for the admission of certain students as sophomores...
...these 2,557 women-whether they be maids, file clerks, dining hall checkers, laboratory assistants, or Secretary to the President-who do the work that keeps all departments of the University functioning. "Male employees tend to get involved in policy decisions," Wessell explains, "and thus the women must see that the work gets done...
...sidewalk in Princeton, N.J., (by chance, he testified), and discussed what they would say to the committee. Oppenheimer says he told them to tell the truth, but on the stand both refused to say whether they had been Communists on the usual constitutional grounds that their answers might tend to incriminate them...