Word: expect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...introduce payroll-reducing machinery so that regional and national "automation maps" could be drawn, and plans made in advance for areas or industries that will be especially hard-hit. It is little comfort to speak of what should have been done a decade ago; but it is irrational to expect men to bear the effects of this vast omission uncomplainingly. The cost of this failure in human terms cannot be reckoned; where rational readjustments were possible to meet the introduction of new machinery, the new age of machines has brought only bitterness and hardship to most men who have encountered...
...defined our leadership as an attempt to be rather well regarded in all these countries. What we have to do is to be ready to accept a good deal more expression of newspaper and governmental opposition to the U.S. in order to get something done. I don't expect that the U.S. will be more beloved, but I would hope that we could get more done...
...Hayes. The first lady of the footlights had a grand time, was treated to a sort of geriatric Hasty Pudding Show by the club's stage-struck captains of industry. "It went off beautifully," observed one member cautiously, "but it's not the sort of thing we expect to do again soon...
...returning to the market in sizable numbers for the first time since the crash last spring. In its latest quarterly consumer poll, the University of Michigan reported that 39% of the nation's families are earning more than they were a year ago, and that 20% of them expect to buy new or used cars in 1963. But amidst all these euphoric signs, there is one troubling problem which afflicts a minority-but too big a minority -of Americans. Said the University of Michigan survey: "Worries, especially about unemployment, are widespread...
...should go in for comprehensive economic planning along the lines now practiced in France. But the report left Europe's automakers unmoved. They mostly agree that overcapacity will result if all present expansion plans are carried out, and they frankly admit that within the next few years they expect a shake-out similar to the one that rocked the U.S. auto industry in the 1920s. Says Fiat Vice Chairman Giovanni Agnelli, 40: "There are about 40 automobile manufacturers in Europe today; 20 of them will probably have disappeared by 1970." But Agnelli, along with most of his competitors, believes...