Word: tending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...changes mean is that the older Cambridge-the collection of cohesive, often ethnic neighborhoods-is being threatened. Little by little, the old balance between separate communities of University and non-University people is shifting. The new residents are not necessarily normally connected with the universities, but their life styles tend to make them look toward Harvard and M.I.T...
Extreme Revisions. Economists at least know that they do not know these things. Often what they regard as known facts turn out to be little more than guesses. "Most of the leading indicators [the economic statistics that are supposed to foreshadow general business trends] tend to be reported in a preliminary fashion and later revised on the basis of wider sampling," notes Beryl Sprinkel, vice president of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank. "And the revisions can be extreme." Chairman
...media in general have been "very fair" in their Kennedy coverage. Not surprisingly, Harris found that the groups that generally support Kennedy -youth, Easterners, blacks and women -are more critical of the press; those who do not-the elderly, Midwesterners and Southerners, whites and men-tend to be more approving of the coverage...
Though youthful trustees tend to be moderates, they still have definite ideas about how their campuses must change. Henry intends to push for greater student influence in shaping Princeton's curriculum. Like most young trustees, he also wants to see the university become more involved in the community. New York's Maria Canino will use her influence as trustee to modify CUNY's entrance requirements. The university, she says, must "bring in larger minority representation...
...inflation. If French price increases continue at their current pace of 6.5% yearly, the gains of franc devaluation will be gone in less than two years. In fact, devaluation itself has a tendency to accelerate inflation, because the automatic increases that it brings in the prices of imported products tend to work their way through an economy. To make a devaluation succeed, a country must clamp down quickly on the consumer demand that pushes up prices, pulls in costly imports and diverts to home consumption some of the production that should go into exports...