Word: tending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with blind persons, a covert yet stubborn resistance to any genuine movement of blind people from the agency back into the mainstream of community life." Although such public distaste is deep, Scott says, the agencies have made few educational efforts to change it. He also contends that the agencies tend to restrict their services to those blind people whom the public finds most acceptable: children with no other handicaps and employable adults. The result is that even the occasional benefits of agency programs are generally not available to such groups as women and the elderly, who make up roughly...
...does not necessarily believe that "bigness is badness," he insists that in the case of conglomerates size alone is potentially anticompetitive. Therefore, he is not likely to miss an opportunity to challenge "giant acquisitions" even if no actual restraint of trade is involved. This action, he believes, would tend to retard such possible abuses of economic power as reciprocity. He fears, for example, that a huge diversified company would be tempted to "systematically use its tremendous purchasing power to make sales" by inducing suppliers to buy its own products...
...Germans are talking about revaluing by 8% to 10% if the franc is dropped by the same amount. Any major increase in value of European money would tend to help the U.S. balance of trade-which posted a $215 million surplus in March-by increasing the price of imports. Without revaluation, it will be a long, uneasy summer in the foreign exchange markets...
...face outlined here, a figure there, and they consider the task completed. It is not. The guru and the singer may be alive; the rest are actors sitting for sketches with only the vaguest dimension or purpose. Moreover, lines like "I feel so trapped. No one here understands me" tend to mock the film's painfully straight face...
...also tend to dissociate yourself from that which isn't neat and ordered (because your mind is so incredibly ordered). If you have been chewing the top of a Bic pen in your zeal, you would probably leave it behind somewhere, not remembering you need it to cover the pen's point, because you wouldn't believe that such a crumpled thing could belong to the set of objects that had to do with...