Word: expect
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the new issues may appeal to stamp collectors, legislators expect that drug dealers will ignore them -- and open themselves to further criminal prosecution. Anyone caught selling drugs without the stamps faces up to three years in jail and a $10,000 fine...
...their alleged roles in Camarena's murder. Of the remaining six, two are at large, probably in Mexico, and four are in Mexican custody. But under the extradition treaty between Mexico and the U.S., neither side is required to surrender its nationals to the other, and few observers expect Mexico to do so voluntarily. Most U.S. officials would be satisfied if Camarena's death were avenged by displays of rigorous prosecution on both sides of the border. Said U.S. Attorney Robert Bonner in Los Angeles: "Our first and foremost concern is that justice is done. If justice is done...
...Mississippi. The Pennsylvania Fish Commission reported numerous dead fish; ducks and geese, caught in the oil, had to be rescued and washed. Said Ashland Oil Chairman John Hall, who quickly declared his company would comply with federal law by footing the entire cleanup bill: "I expect it will be a multimillion-dollar problem...
...expect Yale hockey Coach Tim Taylor to repeat as ECAC Coach of the Year...
...Steve Guttenberg, best known for fronting the Police Academy farces. The story -- of three roguish bachelors forced to care for an abandoned infant -- cradled few surprises and, for great barren stretches, got lost in a draggy drug plot. The film's direction had all the comic subtlety one would expect from that Merlin of mirth, Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy. Maybe the producers thought he was Doctor Spock...