Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acting in bad faith and with little regard for the welfare of their employees, the Massachusetts manufactures can expect little public support for their case. They should, instead, work with the mediation board to settle the current dispute while maintaining realistic wage rates...
...past, he pointed out, such meetings had led to "slipshod" work (he was obviously thinking of Yalta), and the Russians had taken advantage of "general agreements" only to cause trouble later. It would be a terrible mistake, he argued, to arrange a meeting of the chiefs of state and expect them to make decisions on substantive issues in a matter of a few days...
Harvard's Edwin Honig is one of many contemporary poets who are also full-time teachers at universities and colleges. As such he is in danger of being labeled and passed off as just another member of a group in whose work readers of poetry have come to expect generally good craftsmanship, an unusual precision of language, and disappointingly little in the way of content. In the most important respect, however, Honig breaks this pattern; his poems are indeed characterized by the precision of the scholar, but they try to be serious comments on matters of unusually basic importance...
Like Schlesinger and Mrs. Wilcox, however, she said that it was unrealistic to expect the property to remain vacant. "You cannot expect to keep it as a shrine to old Cambridge," Mrs. Wilcox said...
...volunteers have rehabilitated six out of 21 patients--one to a nursing home, three to their own homes, and two to jobs. They expect to return at least six more to the community by June...