Word: expect
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When these political-action committees give money," Bob Dole once said, "they expect something in return other than good government." The Kansas Senator may have been more candid than he intended. In a new book, The Best Congress Money Can Buy (Pantheon; $18.95), the veteran muckraker and anti-PAC crusader Philip M. Stern contends that special-interest donations have often been used to purchase crucial votes from U.S. legislators. Citing reports in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere, Stern accuses several lawmakers of flip-flopping on issues after they received big campaign contributions. Others, he says, have been handsomely rewarded...
...stagnation. During his first week as party General Secretary, Grosz vigorously repeated his support for the market-directed policies he insists are necessary to revive the Hungarian economy, which is weighted down by an $18 billion gross foreign debt and double-digit inflation. But Grosz warned Hungarians not to expect too much too soon. "Many think reform will change everything," he told a Budapest daily. "It is only work that will change our situation...
When spring roundup comes, few ranchers expect to find every head of cattle at once. Some are bound to stray; others might have fallen to illness or predators. But when Bart and Lilly O'Toole gathered in their stock from winter grazing in Nevada's Reese River Valley, they were dismayed to find 20 cows missing from a herd of 200. When none turned up on neighbors' lands or in Nevada stockyards, the O'Tooles knew that 10% of their herd had been rustled. Says Lilly O'Toole, 43: "I'm sure they're slaughtered and made into hamburger...
After three years of bureaucratic successes, few expect Gorbachev to lose ground in the upcoming party conference. "He is the consummate politician," said one Western diplomat in Moscow. But the Soviet leader could be brought low by circumstances beyond his control. Last week renewed unrest flared in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian enclave in the Soviet republic of Azerbaijan; the Communist Party at week's end dismissed the party leaders of the republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan. The continued turmoil suggests that Gorbachev's decision to allow dissent among ethnic minorities could still return to haunt him. So could the withdrawal...
Tribe said he did not expect his work on the committee and his role as chairman to interfere with his teaching in the fall. He added that his selection as chairman "doesn't mean a great deal." He said his role will be primarily to conduct the meetings...