Word: expectance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hope that voters will elect hard-working and responsible representitives whether they run on a CDU platform or not. I hope CDU representatives will vote decisions by the issue and officers by the person, and not according to prearrangement. What do I expect? I expect that. "Hope is...an expensive commodity." Kenneth John Ryan...
Meanwhile, Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey had grim warnings for Britons about a new inflationary spiral. If wage increases sought by public service employees and other striking workers average 15%, the country could expect double-digit inflation by summer, reaching 13% by year's end (current rate: 9%). The wage hikes could add $6 billion to the cost of public services in Britain, which the Labor government might have to offset by raising taxes and cutting government expenditures by $3 billion. If so, the number of unemployed in the country could rise from about 1.5 million...
Paper Mate executives, who expect the Eraser Mate to capture a big share of the U.S.'s $1 billion annual sales of writing instruments, say that it is the biggest advance in pens since felt tips appeared in the 1950s. Says Paper Mate President William Holtsnider: "What we're doing is playing with the fundamental dynamics of writing." At the rival Bic company, a spokesman scoffs...
...associated with the aesthetes, young men he later termed "mad, bad and dangerous to know." He graduated far from the top of his class, then taught school. Evelyn's experiences left him well stocked for his first novel, Decline and Fall (1928): "I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour." A young critic named Cyril Connolly spoke of Waugh's "delicious cynicism." Years later it was apparent that the vivacious style had been based on profound disgust...
...didn't have too many problems with them and I don't expect any when we play them again (February 24) in Philadelphia," Kleinfelder said...