Word: expectance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most restrictive handicaps that disabled students encounter at Harvard are primarily of two varieties: architectural and attitudinal. Many of Harvard's facilities are inaccessible, presenting us with difficulties not only in entering them but in using them as well. As one might expect, the University's numerous old buildings, the uneven brick sidewalks and the maniacal automobile traffic in the Square are a nightmare-come-true for a person in a wheelchair...
...have marketable skills. Before long they should be able to pick and choose among high-bidding employers. For just about everybody else, it is . . . well, hardly the worst of times, but at least a moment for worry. The unskilled jobless, especially if they are young and/or black, can expect little help from any further surge in business, unless job-training programs are expanded. And the nation as a whole is either at or nearing the danger point where a little bit less unemployment means a whole lot more inflation-which would hurt the jobless, retired people and even most...
...obscure political diagnostician), it has been in evidence as long as state legislatures have existed-though sometimes upstaged by more dramatic defects such as procrastination, carelessness and venality. These larger historic faults were undoubtedly in the mind of John Burns when he wrote in The Sometime Governments (1970): "We expect very little of our legislatures, and they continually live up to our expectations." In fact, many state legislatures have improved in some respects over the past two decades, attracting members of higher caliber, for example, and tightening up their staffs and internal organization. But their fascination with trivia...
...nights with full moons, for that is when all the strange people in the city come out. Lt. O'Donoghue said that if he goes home and tells his wife that he had a terrible night, she will go look at the calendar and say, "Well, what did you expect? There's a full moon. You should have called in sick...
...that area have skin cancer or precancerous lesions." The reason: the light-skinned Pomeranians have far less melanin, a protective pigment, than most other, darker-skinned Brazilians. With the trees gone, says Puppin, "children are constantly in the sun. We try to warn them, but you can't expect kids to walk around in hats and long sleeves in the midday heat...