Word: tending
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...inhibitions against attacking members of their own species. Early man was too weak to do so. But as he developed weapons, he learned to cherish the "warrior virtues" of truculent masculinity and pleasure in dominating others. Though he also developed moral restraints against killing, these are not natural and tend to collapse under stress. Seeking a really nonviolent community, anthropologists point with hope to the peace-loving pygmies of the Ituri rain forest in the Congo. Unlike other men, those "primitives" have no male-warrior hangup; they retreat from power-seeking neighbors-and hugely enjoy the sensual pleasures of eating...
Liller will not another John Finley. "Above all Adams House must be a nice place to live," he says when asked if he would strive to have more Rhodes scholars or excellent athletes than the other Houses. "I feel that the Houses tend to become too institutionalized resulting in the large requests for off-campus living." He sees few reasons why someone living in a House cannot have the freedom of one who lives off-campus...
Americans are generally becoming much thriftier-personal savings have jumped from 4.9% of after-tax income in 1963 to 7.5% now-but they tend to save less of their pay than do the Europeans. The highest savers of all are the Japanese, whose people, companies and government together save and reinvest 36% of the gross national product-compared with 18% in the U.S. Emphasizing tomorrow's growth at the expense of today's income, Japan this year will rank third in the world in G.N.P., after the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., but 20th in per-capita income...
...works. The bourses exist in an aroma of gossip, cater primarily to a thin group of the elite. In France, most brokers do not even advertise-and the first one who does so aggressively may get on to quite a good thing. Still fearful of invasion and deflation, peasants tend to distrust securities, put their money in the mattress and their faith in gold, which they hoard and bury-a complete waste of capital. But proper marketing techniques can lure it out. Europe had hardly any mutual funds until an expatriate from Brooklyn, Bernie Cornfeld, started marketing them a dozen...
...Julius Caesar usually met with in histories and in Shakespeare's theater is up to his laurels in politics; but somehow one rarely thinks of him as a politician. His grubby preoccupation with the buying and selling of votes, the maneuvers of rival factions-these tend to be obscured by poetry and rhetoric. Theodore White has chosen to treat Caesar mostly as a practitioner-and ultimately a victim-of politics. White has always been fascinated "by the way men use other men to reach their goals." In magazine pieces and in two books about The Making of the President...