Word: expect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this year the electorate can expect to be amused, for the campaigns of 1962 promise to be among the most interesting and animated in the unruly history of Massachusetts politics...
...Social Credit (8%), may pull enough votes to deny either Tories or Liberals a clear majority of the Commons' 265 seats. Either way the Tory majority will probably be substantially cut. Diefenbaker and Pearson are both in good health for the campaign; both talk as if they expect to win. Pearson, a Nobel prizewinner, is much respected, but Diefenbaker, though his popularity has fallen off. is considered a better down-to-earth campaigner. The closeness of the race means that the give-and-take of campaigning will have a lot to do with the final judgment...
...with Producer Carlo Ponti (since bigamy charges brought against Ponti forced them to disavow their 1957 marriage early this year), developed a diplomatic cold. Finally, 1961's best actress had to accept her Oscar at a small reception in her own apartment. "I didn't expect a state reception," said she, "but I had hoped to be honored as an Italian receiving a high international prize...
...undervalued shares of companies with strong profit potentials. A minority of Wall Streeters even suggest that the next peak may mark the end of the Great Bull Market-which has persisted for 15 years despite temporary setbacks. Not even the pessimists, however, predict a selling panic; what they gloomily expect is month after tedious month during which stock prices mill around endlessly in the trading range-never crashing into the cellar, but never making new highs...
Unlike the tax credit, a speedup in depreciation write-offs does not require congressional approval. By early summer, Treasury tax men expect to finish the monumental job of revising their rulings on the useful life of each of the myriad varieties of machinery used by U.S. industry. The shorter useful-life rulings will allow businessmen to deduct the purchase price of machinery from their income tax in larger chunks-and hence leave them with more after-tax cash to buy still more machinery. Though other industries are unlikely to get the whopping 40% depreciation speedup already accorded the hard-pressed...