Word: expect
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...among them Ambassador to Britain David Bruce, Ambassador to Laos William Sullivan, and Ambassador to Kenya Attwood. "Their reports are so good," says a member of the Policy Planning Council, "that people in the State Department look forward to reading them, and pass their cables around. As you would expect, their reports get action commensurate with the attention they get." Attwood, a longtime professional journalist, was recently asked to write, for distribution within the department, a memo on how to write. "The best incentive for drafting a readable report," it said, "is to assume that your readers are not terribly...
Christmas is still some 70 shopping days away, but the nation's retailers already have visions of new records dancing in their heads. Judging by the strength of autumn sales, they expect a 6% to 8% rise in Christmas sales, a jump that would easily round off 1965 as the buyingest year in history. Breaking sales records has become practically a Christmas tradition of recent years, and merchants would be disappointed indeed if rising population and prices together did not cause the phenomenon to occur again. What is unusual about their optimism is that this year...
...program offers the prospect of a battery of new upper-level courses, differing in content and perhaps in pre-requisites. To enhance this prospect, the Faculty should instruct the Committee on General Education to require calculus for upper-level Natural Science courses. Thus a professor in the sciences could expect a class with some background in science and advanced mathematics, and could plan a General Education course at the same time stimulating and rigorous...
...most interesting moment will come on the night of Oct. 20 when the comet will skim by the sun's surface, perhaps as close as 300,000 miles (the sun's diameter is 900,000 miles). Owen J. Gingerich, lecturer on Astronomy, and Brian Marsden of the SAO expect the total brightness of the comet may then, rival that of the crescent moon, and its tail may extend more than half-way from the horizon to the zenith...
...department unanimously recommended the change. I expect that the faculty will honor the recommendation," he declared. Last Spring, when the suggestion was first made to omit the grade for Gov 99, Maass said that the change would probably not go into effect until...