Word: expect
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...reasoning are hypocritical; witness the history of our treatment of Native Americans. Those of us who don't, at least not consciously, are still implicated in our country's ironic policies. Without actively combatting the not-so-new wave of ethnocentrism--writing to our representatives, for example--we cannot expect the politics of xenophobic hostility to fade away...
Such stubbornness and disrespect for both the Constitution and the citizenry only means that in the end we can expect President Reagan to issue pardons. We can also expect that the pardons will come long after the election is over, which may even be long after Vice President Bush has been elected his successor. If this were to come to pass, it would be hard to have much faith, either in a Constitution which could allow such deeds to go unpunished, or in a citizenry which could allow such deeds to be repeated. As slowly as the wheels of justice...
...that figure by a fairly straightforward calculation: if there are 50 to 100 symptomless carriers of the AIDS virus for every case of actual disease, as was first noted in 1985, and there were 45,000 cases of AIDS in the U.S. in late 1987, then one would now expect about 3,375,000 people (75 X 45,000) to be infected with the virus...
...marries a man who turns out to be a homosexual. Rachel notices him wearing lipstick and eyeshadow in a local wine bar, and the reader is left to wonder how bovine the bride must be to have been led into this situation. The union lasts longer than one might expect, though once free, Heather heads off to Venice, where she promptly becomes a novelistic cliche: the Englishwoman who falls in love with an Italian...
Instead Bok's decision skirted most of the controversy. Rest assured, though, such questions will not be so easily swept under the rug in the court case. As one professor said after Bok's decision was announced. "I would expect a large percentage of the faculty to testify on [Dalton's] behalf against the University, well over 50 percent...