Word: tending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guerrillas' disadvantage, the bleak, rocky West Bank, where they target most of their operations, does not provide good cover, and the Israelis are a formidably efficient enemy. They claim to have killed or captured 2,650 fedayeen and tend to dismiss them as amateurs. "We cannot dignify them with the name guerrilla or commando," says an Israeli officer. "The Arabs who cross over show no daring. In that respect, they are nowhere near Viet Cong standards." The Israelis do respect Arafat, however. Their intelligence network has twice reported him on Israeli soil, and twice he escaped a dragnet. "Anyone...
Some economists still tend to be cautious about capital spending for next year. But businessmen make the decisions, and they are reacting to expanding order books and rising wages, which since March 1966 have gone up 12% to an average $2.92 per hour in the past two years. As a result, managers are increasing their investment in more efficient and possibly labor-saving plants and machines...
...disturbed by the discrepancy between prices for work covered by auto manufacturers' warranties and prices on nonwarranty jobs. The automakers pay for the warranty work and they allow the repairman only a 25% profit margin. But on other repair jobs, the markup runs 40% and more. Garages also tend to offer discounts to such big customers as insurance companies and auto-fleet owners. Volume discounts, of course, are common in all U.S. businesses, but Michigan Senator Philip Hart, the subcommittee chairman, wondered "whether the cash customer is subsidizing the privileged customer...
What They Bought. The '69 model buyers tend to go to extremes in their choices. Luxury cars and economy compacts are both selling well, proving Detroit's contention that there are two ways for the market to grow. The fastest-rising car is Pontiac's Grand Prix, which has an electric rear-window defroster and the longest hood in the industry and retails for $3,777 without extras. Pontiac sold 24,874 of them in October and November, more than during all of the 1968 model year...
...even though his movies are full of beautiful images, their ideas tend to ride on the soundtrack. Truffaut's Jules and Jim was adapted from a novel, yet its moments of revelation (the morning scenes at the beach-house, for instance) are visual. When Bergman tries to escape the literary--in The Silence, with almost no dialogue--the result is a crude, sometimes ludicrous reliance on symbols...