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Word: expectance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week, graces the Ellipse and serves as the na tional tree.. A 20-foot fir, surrounded by antique toys and a miniature house set up by Amy, dominates the Blue Room. Another tree stands in the upstairs living quarters. But on Christmas morning, Amy and her family expect to be in Plains, where they will celebrate beside a tree cut this week by the President himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grand Tidings of Comfort and Joy | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...party in Johannesburg, he startled his South African hosts by indicating that Smith's government in Rhodesia, if it continues to move toward an "all parties" conference of local leaders and carries through with a promised one-man, one-vote national election next spring with "credible" international observers, could expect the U.S. Senate to repeal the economic embargo imposed on the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: By George, a New Angola | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...division 31% of the domestic sports-utility market-a term covering relatively small four-wheel-drive vehicles designed for off-road use. Running second is Chevy's Blazer with nearly 24% of the market, followed by Ford's newly revamped Bronco with 21%. Next year U.S. automen expect to produce 1 million four-wheel-drive vehicles. The field has become so attractive that even Mercedes plans to enter with its own four-wheeler by next summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Money Machine | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...large-leafed, pollution-resistant trees of the London plane variety, Angelica's owners, Thomas J. Kohl and his three sons, saw their chance. From their 1,000-acre tree farm this year, they sent 5,000 sycamore hybrids to Hamburg at $24 to $30 each and expect to ship as many as 10,000 next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Offbeat Exports | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...bronze in front of Dallas' new city hall, designed by Pei. "Until this arrived," Pei said, "I felt something was missing." A few spectators, however, thought something was still amiss. "Is this a junkyard?" asked one. Moore was undaunted. "People shouldn't immediately expect to cotton onto something someone else has been thinking about much, much longer," he says. "I mean, they don't understand Einstein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 18, 1978 | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

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