Word: tends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...particularly important to have this aspect of collection at source understood, because failure to make it clear will tend to create the impression that withholding means a new and additional tax, rather than merely a more convenient and efficient method of payment of the tax which would have to be paid anyway...
...long hand with long, bony fingers, firm muscles and flat palm, long nails with well developed moons, and many deep, clear-cut palm lines belongs to tall, slender people, nervous and excitable, vivacious, popular, successful, in danger of becoming egotistical. They will tend toward disease of the thyroid, tuberculosis or nervous disorders. Among them are many tennis champions, polo players, dancers and engineers...
Other officers have struggled more systematically, but just as angrily, against the form and procedure that inevitably tend to strangle big organizations. Some high-rankers, like General "Hap" Arnold of the Air Forces, have often been in official hot water for cutting through red tape to get things done. General George Marshall has a maxim: "Red tape can be cut, but you've got to be deadly accurate...
...needs to be stressed, however, that a social security program does not make it more difficult to insure an expanding economy at high levels of income and employment. It is not true that social welfare expenditures constitute a drain on national income and tend to depress the economy...
Under the operation of both plans a nation would find its credit with the American Fund or British Clearing Union increasing or diminishing according to the trend in balance of payments. If, for instance, Britain were importing more than it was exporting, its holdings of Unitas (or bancor) would tend to diminish (other factors being equal). If the U.S. were exporting more than it was importing, its credit in Unitas (or bancor) would tend to increase...