Word: tending
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Procaccino's average man and Marchi's forgotten New Yorker are of course political stereotypes. In flesh and blood terms, they are many people. Some live on meager incomes as pensioners, clinging to the frame houses that represent a lifetime's work. "People tend to forget," says Marchi, "that there are many poor white people." To the retired worker, or to the family living on $7,000 or $8,000 in the lower civil service ranks, a tax increase on their homes or an apartment rent rise is a grave threat to the stability of a small, precarious world. Second...
...family of four to maintain a moderate standard of living in New York City, where the living costs are higher than in any large U.S. city except Honolulu. These people, like the highly skilled members of the craft unions, who can earn more when business is good, tend to live in communities where ethnic ties are still strong. Whether they occupy one-and two-family row houses or ranks of monotonously alike apartment buildings, working-class families take pride in an orderly environment. They readily feel threatened by population shifts that change the makeup of their schools, road projects that...
While no such bitter divisions have emerged, the liberals tend to be less enthusiastic in their account of communications between the cancuses. Womack believes that while the steering committees have remained on good terms, "there has been a kind of sharpening of feeling and an accumulating resentment from people in both caucuses...
...tend to respect U Mass a little bit more than Providence since they have two top men." McCurdy said Thursday. Wayne set a fast early pace in the Northeastern Track Club open meet recently and finished second in the five-mile race. He was fifth and Duarte was eighth in the meet with Harvard last fall...
...result would be that any candidate receiving more than one-twelfth of the total votes would be elected. In a contested election, a school would tend to be represented in proportion to the number of its students...