Word: tends
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wyatt and more than 300 of the most seriously injured have come to the bucolic Walter Reed, which has been treating wounded U.S. soldiers since World War I. The men--and a few women--coming off the Iraqi battlefields in stretchers tend to be young: Castro is 23, Meinen 24, and Wyatt, from Franktown, Colo., turned 21 two weeks before losing his leg. Many enlisted as a way to earn money for college and get in shape, but now they're wheelchair bound. Contrary to the old Army recruiting motto, they're not fighting to be all they...
...modern science,” says Myhrum, who camped out to get a Dalai Lama ticket. She remembers enjoying the solid educational grounding that came from the scientific backgrounds and postsecondary degrees that many of the monks and nuns had. “People raised in scientific, rationalistic circumstances tend to be uncomfortable when religious engagement presses them to consent to viewpoints that will disagree with their ‘rational understandings,’” says Lecturer on the Study of Religion Brian C.W. Palmer, who encounters many of these issues in his class Religion...
...attached to any uniquely Buddhist doctrine. “It’s all very vague—it’s important to be a good person,” Gordon offers as his view of what it means to be Buddhist. “The way I tend to think of it, Buddhists here are like if Unitarians got together and really decided to be serious, they would turn into Buddhist,” says Gordon, who was brought up in the Unitarian Church...
...begun to wonder whether my classmates’ cultural identities aren’t as newfound as my Freedonian one—albeit more authentic. Our cultural identity isn’t important in our hometowns, where we know each others’ families, and where we tend to take certain parts of our lives—what we eat for dinner, say, or how we celebrate holidays—for granted. At Harvard, though, away from our families, we begin to see the observances we took for granted as unique to our cultural communities. Our cultural identities work...
...employment and consumer spending. Supply and demand is equalizing and the cycle of lost jobs and decreased spending finally is turning around as industries slowly rebound. The ending of the war with Iraq helped the economy even further as consumer confidence is greater. Even though a lot of companies tend to lay off people as a means of rebounding, I believe all industries will need to increase hiring in the near future because of demand. Marc Sontz Raleigh...