Word: expectance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What a spineless, irresponsible performance by the House on gasoline rationing. For heaven's sake, let's begin rationing now. I believe most Americans would like to know where they stand. If we know we can only expect so much gasoline, we'll make...
Carter and Brezhnev will have their first business session on Saturday morning at the baroque U.S. embassy. For two hours they will make a survey of world problems. After lunch- and a nap for Brezhnev- they will talk together for 1 1/2 hrs. more. At this meeting they expect to settle any language disputes on SALT II and officially open discussion on SALT III, the next round of negotiations...
...declared, "Being such a vast community, a community almost as large as the nation itself, we cannot be outside the law. Definition of the church's legal status is at the same time the definition of our place and of all of our rights." The church does not expect or even want the political powers that it wielded in former times. It seeks only elemental human freedoms, which John Paul has enunciated from his universal pulpit...
...might expect Ullmann's acting to be a redeeming feature, but it isn't. Partly to exonerate her feeble efforts, it must be said that the role of Mama has not been written or developed. It is not even scribbled in. However, the mark of a professional is to be able to make something out of nothing. Instead, Ullmann lapses into a series of alternating smiles and frowns. There is no sense of emo tional conviction: it is as if she were making faces before an imaginary mirror. Too many years before the camera, perhaps, where her superbly...
...metals that are used in industry. Platinum, which is needed for pollution-fighting catalytic converters in cars, has risen an eye-popping 173%, to well over $400 an ounce, since the Soviet Union, a big supplier of the metal, started throttling back exports two years ago. Some market watchers expect it soon to hit $500. The demand last year for silver, used for coinage, camera film and tableware, was about 17 million ounces greater than the supplies of 433 million ounces from regular channels, and the remainder had to be made up by dipping into private stockpiles. A slowing...