Word: expect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everyone in Ottawa's House of Com mons knew roughly what to expect when the Prime Minister rose for his announcement. Elected in 1958 with the largest parliamentary majority in Canadian his tory, Diefenbaker still had eleven months to go in his five-year term, though it is never prudent to go to the country at the last moment. He would really have preferred to delay the election until September, he said, but the Liberals' "delaying tactics and obstruction" had made it "al most impossible to proceed with the busi ness of the House." Thus, Diefenbaker explained blandly...
...public interest" and "ruthless disregard of their public responsibilities." There was, he insisted, "no justification for an increase in steel prices." Under the free-enterprise system, he conceded, wage and price decisions "ought to be freely and privately made. But the American people have a right to expect, in return for that freedom, a higher sense of business responsibility for the welfare of their country than has been shown in the last two days...
...sets a three-year ban on pay raises for rehired strikers. But New York, which already has a teacher shortage, could hardly fire 22,000 teachers. Instead, the board of education stopped the strike with a restraining order. It was up against a militancy that it never quite expected. "People expect teachers to act like angels. But when the board of education acts like a factory owner, we have to respond accordingly," said one picket...
...nearly $6.5 million in 1960. To reduce costs, Hearst officers have ruthlessly winnowed its newspaper ranks by merger or sale, most recently in Los Angeles, when Hearst's morning Examiner vanished into its afternoon paper, the Herald-Express (TIME, Jan. 12). The annual report also warned stockholders to expect a serious loss in the first quarter of this year-partly because of "heavy expenses" incurred in the Los Angeles merger...
...property. At Harvard the Dining Hall pundits are already estimating his chances of filling the 70,000-name petition necessary to put him on the ballot. The wags are coining such slogans as "Stu is Thru," and if the professor begins to look like a vote-getter he can expect a red smear...