Word: expect
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...another, banks and savings and loan associations that are lending money on the inflated values might not be able to retrieve the full amount of their mortgages, would find themselves in serious trouble. All this could trigger a price collapse that would burst the land-boom bubble, but few expect this to happen soon-if at all. Despite the high prices, strong and rising demand still supports the cost of land...
Taylor issued the following statement, which was approved by Kirkland's Senior Common Room and the House Committee: "With Kirkland House stock presently undervalued in the Yard, interviews are uneconomic. We still expect and welcome applications but we don't have to depend on them to get a well-selected freshman group. The system insures us a wide range of choice...
...this country," he said. "The continuity and the transition created confidence in the country and in the world." And, he added, "while I have been lavishly praised by some, and I think lavishly criticized by some, I think, generally speaking, the American nation has conducted itself as you would expect it to in a crisis and would get very good grades...
Government economists expect capital budgets to grow by 8% to 10%, moving into the $42 billion area, but many private economists forecast that the final figure will be higher. Rising even 8%, capital spending would expand faster than either consumer spending, Government outlays, or exports-and thus become the most buoyant force in the U.S. economy...
This was not the kind of talk which experience back in plumbers' school had led me to expect. I was at once amazed, terrified, excited and pleased. And so began my experience of Harvard. Often I recalled the sick feeling I had that first night when I came to Harvard alone--my first trip east of Chicago--and was confronted with the incredible, if perhaps--may I add this now?--slightly pretentious erudition of a select group of Harvard plumbers, clearly much better prepared for what lay ahead than I. But may I also say that the great respect...