Word: tends
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that China's modest revaluation will ripple gently through Asia and the rest of the world. By giving scope for Asian currencies to strengthen, economists expect that the yuan's rise will effectively boost consumer-spending power throughout the region, because imports will become cheaper and interest rates will tend to remain low. In this way, the reform of the yuan could usher in a major shift in the way the global economy works: the knock against Asia is that it saves too much and spends too little, while the U.S. spends too much and saves too little?leading...
...ones. Some teenagers come by their pills legitimately but trade them for others, like painkillers, that hold more appeal because of their more potent high. Others order from shady Internet pharmacies where prescriptions aren't always required. Still others take advantage of the fact that neither doctors nor parents tend to think of prescription medications as drugs of abuse. That makes it a fairly easy proposition to fake or exaggerate symptoms in order to persuade physicians to write prescriptions, or to pillage medicine cabinets for pills left forgotten on shelves. "When adults and medical professionals treat medications casually," says...
...projectile that vaporizes him from the waist up; his legs totter a few ghastly steps before collapsing. All this was nearly too much even for executive producer Steven Bochco (Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue) when FX pitched him the idea. The show, he worried, "would by its very nature tend to be political if not politicized." He finally decided that the basic human drama was like that in his cop shows, and the content was ugly but necessary. "Without dramatizing the consequences of terrible, violent events," he says, "you aren't doing your...
...times, politicians...tend to end up at Harvard right after they’re done,” he said. “For me, it’s different...
...good that I’m getting a dry run on this housekeeping thing. Despite the past month of training, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t pass any housewifely tests. I still don’t know how to drive, I tend to tape up packing boxes with “This side up” arrows pointing down, and, well, my mom had to step in and make sure more packing and less reading got done...