Word: expectance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clifton said he wants to have the class agent plan 95-per-cent set up by next year. This will provide the University Development Office with a strong organizational base if Harvard launches a multi-million dollar capital drive, which many officials expect will be announced within the next year...
Answers to the question, "What options are you considering for the next one or two years?" show the most striking changes. Fifty-two per cent of the working group expect to be in their current jobs for the next year or two, compared with only six per cent of the comparable group from the Class...
...Keynoting their cause was General Assembly President Lazar Mojsov of Yugoslavia, who castigated the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. as the "chief actors" in the arms race and called for the huge sums spent on weapons development to be channeled into alleviating poverty and exploring new sources of energy. To expect any such sweeping progress toward the centuries-old goal of disarmament was obviously unrealistic, and one West German Foreign Ministry official went so far as to dismiss the conference as "a propaganda exercise for all concerned." Perhaps so, but other speakers broached more modest ideas that could at least provide...
...earnestness, good nature and sophomoric romanticism substituted for wit, intelligence and style, with Brooks' music smeared over everything, like gooey frosting. The picture is shot in the manner of the TV commercials Brooks used to do, and his people display all the nuances we've come to expect from citizens who really care about the shine on their kitchen floors...
...escapee were brought back by the police and army units that had scoured desert, tundra and taiga for him. Those who survived capture were likely to try again, like the legendary Estonian Georgi Tenno. Between his ultimately unsuccessful breakouts, prisoners would wonderingly ask Tenno, "What do you expect to find on the outside?" His reply: "Freedom, of course! A whole day in the taiga without chains-that's what I call freedom...