Word: expect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever his new targets, in Khrushchev's own phrase, "statistics don't fry pancakes." Few experts expect Russia to have any farm surplus problem for years to come. It is perhaps Communism's greatest failure that nowhere has it satisfied man's most fundamental demand in life, to be properly fed. Throughout the Communist empire, from Castro's Cuba to Mao's China, breadline societies are an inevitable result of Marxism's ingrained distrust of the peasantry and its insistence on headlong industrialization...
...chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Aid. last month denounced a White House request for $3 billion to finance the Alliance for the next four years as "asinine." U.S. Alliance Director Teodoro Moscoso. who bossed Puerto Rico's successful self-help program, admits: "You can hardly expect U.S. taxpayers, already heavily burdened, to help underwrite development programs in countries where a few privileged people are virtually free from taxation." In recent months, U.S. lawmakers have journeyed to Latin America to see for themselves. Arkansas' Senator John McClellan found "an attitude of waiting for Uncle...
...American negotiators, whose stated aim at Geneva is to "make unnecessary" our forthcoming tests, can hardly expect the Soviets to sign under the pressure of an ultimatum, and whether President Kennedy intended "nuclear blackmail" or not, the timing of his announcement will not make the Russians soften their objections to an elaborate inspection system...
...Boston Symphony toured Europe in triumph, visiting U.S. orchestras have repeatedly demonstrated that they are now the world's best. But few orchestras have attracted quite the attention accorded the 87-member Eastman Philharmonia, which returned home last week after a 13-week, 34-city tour. Though Europeans expect excellence from the U.S., they were unprepared for such quality from a student orchestra, most of whose members are in or barely out of their teens...
...Pont ownership of G.M. will be cut from 23% to 1.85%. The next question was what would happen to the prices of Du Pont and G.M. stock once the great unloading began. The outlook: because both companies have such strong sales and earnings records, Wall Street does not expect either stock to fall far, but G.M. stock is likely to dip a few points during periods when large blocks of Du Pont's old holdings flood the market...