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Word: expectance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refuses to talk with the PLO until it recognizes Israel's right to exist. But we never required that Israel recognize the right of the Palestinians to have a homeland. Moreover, it is absurd to expect the leaders of the PLO to call a surprise press conference and announce their decision that Israel does indeed have a right to exist...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: Giving the PLO the A-OK | 10/17/1979 | See Source »

...expect to go to the trials in June, and maybe I'll surprise everyone and get the third spot in the 1500 and then again, maybe I won't," she said...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Local Star Beckford Runs On | 10/16/1979 | See Source »

...year-old voluntarily livng on a pension financed for the most part by today's productive workers is livng on welfare. Jobs must be restructured to take seniors into account, and jobs must be available for seniors. If a person freely chooses leisure, he should not expect the productive working force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 15, 1979 | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...Read one typical banner: EQUAL RITES FOR WOMEN. Sister Lorraine Weires, a Dominican nun and ardent feminist who attended the Des Moines Mass dressed in black slacks, expressed hope that the Pope "is open to dialogue. He too will grow in consciousness." Perhaps. But there is little reason to expect that in the years ahead John Paul will bend his views to suit the world as most U.S. Catholics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope In America: It Was Woo-hoo-woo | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

Botha's sweeping liberalization strategy is based on a cold-blooded assessment of his country's increasingly vulnerable security position. If Britain's effort to produce genuine majority rule in neighboring Zimbabwe Rhodesia succeeds, South Africa can expect to become the next target of resentful black Africans, who are determined to erase every vestige of white rule from the continent. In these terms, the proposed reforms are essentially an attempt to stave off future revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Adapt or Die | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

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