Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...round of raises now. He caustically criticized the law that bars firing of surplus employees. In the last five years, said Eder, the number of workers in the government-run mines increased 20% while production dropped 50%. The report's blunt summary said that if Bolivians expect U.S. aid to continue at its present level (about one-third the government budget), so must stabilization...
Large-scale draft programs and the continuing cold war status mean a military obligation for America's youth for a long time to come. Recent innovations, such as the six-month active duty program, are temporary solutions with indefinite futures. Most young men still expect several years in some branch of the armed services before they can safely plan for a home and future...
Just why the department then felt compelled to expose students to a specimen from each period is extremely difficult to say. Since they could hardly expect to expose him to all of the literature written in English in a mere four years, it was clear enough to him that they were aiming at directed selection. But why it was not likely that he should discover more in selections chosen by himself on the grounds of personal preference, this was hard...
...networks, and even some executives at CBS itself, were not reacting as Crosby hoped. Said one official: "A terrible mistake. This is the kind of thing that makes criticism suspect. Any time he pans a show on NBC or ABC, somebody is sure to say: 'What do you expect, he's on the CBS payroll.' And bending over backward isn't a proper posture for a critic either...
...others to take offense at the drop of a hat. It's time for Washington to do some soul searching." (This, if put more charitably, comes close to a general U.S. reaction-the ruefully philosophical recognition that the U.S. is now a big power and therefore must expect to be kicked around as a matter of course...