Word: expect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kills me to hear the propaganda and false niceties from the lips of men like Libya's Gaddafi and the P.L.O.'s Arafat [April 9]. How can the Palestinians expect the world to take them seriously as long as they allow themselves to be led by terrorist criminals like Arafat...
...Anglo-American initiative has fallen apart. At present, nobody is pressing for an all-parties conference. Muzorewa and his colleagues do not want one because they expect to be running the show in Salisbury. The guerrillas do not want one because they expect to win everything through force. The result, as Mugabe once put it: "The real conference will be in the bush...
...like about him is that flippant, Californian, obsessed-with-golf striding through life. His not caring about the serious side at all. That's very seductive to me. I would feel fine making a picture like Sleeper tomorrow, but I get the feeling the audience would be disappointed. They expect something else from me now. But I wouldn't let that prevent my doing it. It would be just too much fun to make a real out-and-out junk kind of thing." With some regret, Allen found himself having to cut jokes out of Manhattan in the editing. "They...
...considered a peach. But over the past 137 years, the once blighted island has developed into a bustling seaport colony that boasts a thriving economy. Though Britain's lease on 90% of the 400-sq.-mi. area expires in only 18 years, residents expect a glowing future of political stability and more prosperity...
More agile Hong Kong businessmen have started to shift some of their production to China, which has what the overcrowded colony lacks: plenty of space and unskilled labor. Already 200 firms have some operations in China-mostly of the labor-intensive kind-and 200 more expect to set up shop there by year's end. For example, Hong Kong's Asia International Electronics Ltd. sends components for its radio/tape cassette players to factories in Peking, where they are put together before being shipped back to the colony for final assembly and export. The Chinese workers are paid...