Word: tending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Second, late scratches in a race can drastically alter its complexion, especially with reference to pace. Professional horsemen know that two front-running horses tend to tire each other. Thus, a strong come-from behind horse entered against two front-runners becomes a bad investment when one of those front-runners is scratched. A lone front-runner entered against off-the-pace horses can control a slow early pace and have plenty of gas left for the stretch drive...
Using the same distance-measuring technique, with the moon as a reference point, scientists will, during the next several years, also be able to make precise measurements of the wobbling of the earth on its axis. This motion, called Chandler's Wobble, should tend to damp out with the passage of time, but is periodically reinforced by unknown forces?possibly earthquakes. More accurate measurements of the wobble with the aid of the laser reflector might someday lead to a technique for earthquake prediction...
Internal Vocabulary . The results of such experiments tend to support the the ory of mind over matter, so long ridiculed by modern science. "People are re-examining old concepts like mind-body dualism," says Dr. Bernard Engel of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Baltimore...
...that the net operating earnings they report are not quite the same as ordinary corporate earnings. "N.O.E." include profits from lending but do not include defaulted loans or losses on securities investments, which most banks have suffered this year. Under any circumstances, N.O.E. figures are somewhat misleading; they tend to overstate profits during times when securities markets are falling-and understate profits when markets are rising. As a result, accounting groups are urging banks to report straight net income as corporations do. Whether they do or not, bank operating earnings are likely to remain strong in forthcoming months...
...strongest New Politics ideals--participation in the political process without hope of personal gain--is one which is not likely to strike many responsive chords outside of those intellectuals who have the time and resources to participate in this manner. By contrast, American Blacks who participate in politics tend to do so either for personal gain reminiscent of "machine politics" days (the members of Adam Clayton Powell's Harlem political clubs) or as quasi-revolutionaries. Neither approach fits particularly well with the New Politics...