• Part of the reason for that is - contrary to any romantic ideals of covering presidential visits - you don't tend to get a lot of downtime chatting with the man himself, so a news conference is about as close as you'll get.

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  • In tight pink T-shirts and short shorts, they tend to be young, pretty and female.

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  • Don't North Korea's southern-pointing missiles tend to depress values and make the artists nervous?

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  • Most growth sectors have strong exports--given a boost by the weak greenback--but they also tend to require capital and skilled labor that developing-nation manufacturers can't muster.

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  • Language barriers aren't the only reason why immigrants tend to be under-enrolled in public health insurance programs, said Jackie Vimo, director of advocacy for the New York Immigration Coalition.

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  • But by definition, the ones who come in on those skill-based visas tend to be performing functions that we don't have enough people in this country to already perform: doctors, computer programmers, that kind of thing.

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  • The results don't change things, he argues, because any conclusions made from follow-up results tend to be weak.

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  • In most types of criminal trials, Ms. Mannes said, men tend to be more punitive, but that doesn't hold true for child-sex-abuse cases.

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  • You're the intermediary between two worlds, which isn't easy, because Ivy League schools tend to admit the blandest, most assimilated, least-ethnic minorities you can imagine.

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  • The experiment with e-commerce thus far has shown that online shoppers tend to favor the bricks-and-clicks models so they don't sacrifice having a physical location where they can get advice, view products or make an exchange -- a finding that bricks-and-clicks universities are likely to recognize and copy, Levine said.

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  • And their fans, who tend to be younger, can't or won't shell out for Streisand-priced tickets.

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  • "Consumers associate larger sizes with more savings and more value, and they tend to over-pour or over-use the products because they don't feel guilty about using more, " he said.

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  • They tend to be costly with few rewards and don't have the flexibility of a general-purpose credit card, experts say.

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  • Retailers don't like giving money back, and they hate losing "lift"--the extra purchases that consumers tend to make on top of their gift-card haul.

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  • Unlike smaller mortgages, many jumbo loans aren't eligible to be purchased by the governmental-chartered agencies known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, so they tend to be more expensive for borrowers.

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  • Folks here are used to being treated by the media the way a hamster is treated by a preschool class -- those who like the little critter still tend to patronize him, and those who don't like him don't know the first thing about him.

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