Word: expectance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That may sound less like optimism than Pollyannaism. So far this year inflation has exploded. From March through May, it averaged 11.3% at an annual rate, one of the worst three-month performances ever. Though no one expects the surge to remain that bad, the Carter Administration last week forecast a 7.2% rise for the full year, and some economists expect an 8% increase...
...Congress itself. They do not depend on a Speaker, or the Democratic Party, or a presidential candidate to help put them in office. I think this is one reason we are much more likely to see success in November among Democratic members of Congress than we would ordinarily expect. Their dependence relates to their own direct trust with the voters...
Pinkerton's and Burns offer an all-encompassing executive security service. Their advice does not come cheap: a major company that calls in an agency for a thorough study of its security needs may expect to pay $100,000 or so. Both Burns and Pinkerton's typically begin such a consultation with a "threat analysis," aimed at determining the degree of peril to which the company and its high-level executives are exposed. After that study, which may take as long as six months if the client has overseas branches, the advisers draw up a plan that outlines...
Divorce. "In the early part of the last century our ancestors when entering marriage could expect it to last on the average twelve years before one or the other partner died. Now marriages will last on the average four times as long-48 years ... Unfortunately the Church is doing little to help people develop ... the skills of patience, reconciliation, perseverance, excitement and adventure which are required for such long marriages...
...last year and joined the Davis staff. Among other things, Academician Doroshov discovered a way to speed up the sturgeon's maturity cycle, from 15 to 20 years to four to six years. At Davis, internationally renowned for its research into food and wine, officials expect to receive federal money for a $500,000 pilot hatchery...