Word: expectance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expect Saudi Arabia to back the anti-Sadat summit...
...clear: the Saudi Arabian masses have condemned Sadat as a traitor. The Saudi Arabian rulers know how their people feel, and that is why they have not given open backing to Sadat. One result of the conference will be to consolidate progressive Arab opinion. We don't expect support from reactionary forces of the Arab world. But all over the world there are progressives and there are reactionaries. In the front ranks of the reactionaries are the Israelis and those Arabs who march with them...
Given this televised splash of mediocrity, followers of Rolling Stone had little reason to expect anything special in the published commemoration of the magazine's ten years, and the issue lives up to these very lowered expectations. Where an objective chronicle of the trends in rock over the last 120 months would have sufficed, the reader instead turns to pages of unabashed narcissism and a muddled, warped view of rock music during the years of Rolling Stone. In other words, the subject is the magazine itself, rather than the culture that nourished...
Many liberals question the depth of the drive for determinate sentences. Noting that many judges hand out tough sentences but do not expect them to be fully served, the University of Chicago's Franklin Zimring argues that parole serves a humane function "in a system that seems addicted to barking louder than it really wants to bite." Thus the firm-sentences movement could turn out to be short-lived. Harvard's Alan Dershowitz, for one, has predicted that after a period of legislative intrusion into sentencing, complaints will be voiced about excessive conformity and rigidity, "and the cycle...
...Lack of scoring distribution hurt us," Kleinfelder said. She added, "We can't have one or two people doing all the scoring and expect to win. Teams key on Caryn [Curry] or the other person who's shooting, and the four people who are open do not get the ball. And overall, they just out-hustled...