Word: expectance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mean serious political trouble for Carter in 1980, if angry and disillusioned blacks either desert him or simply ignore him, as many of them ignored the recent congressional elections. But the meeting also focused attention on the nation's black leaders. Those who met with the President expect to reconvene next week to plan their next moves against the budget cuts. Their job will not be easy. While they seem to be united in opposition to Carter's fiscal policy, the nation's black leaders today are as varied as the people for whom they speak...
...number of corporate PACs has risen from 89 to 776. They contributed some $8 million to congressional candidates, about 15% of their total campaign receipts. The business groups' spending was equal to that of the 263 PACs operated by labor unions. By 1980, campaign fund-raising experts expect corporations to field about 1,000 PACs and greatly increase their spending...
...feels this is a way of life," said Newton Graves Jr., a vice president of Yellow Freight System, one of the nation's largest common carriers. "We have 15 people and their wives here. I have given each one of them a list of all the meetings we expect them to attend. They better go." Many trucking executives, like Graves, spent a good part of each day discussing new models and products with the manufacturers. He adds: "This is the toughest week I put in during the entire year. It's hard work, hard work...
Although income from the federal government and from research and training contracts and grants increased 10.8 per cent in 1977-78--the first time in years the increase has exceeded the inflation rate--Harvard officials do not expect the windfall to last long...
...album itself is not a string of musical commentaries, nor is it dedicated to selling a million-plus copies. "A Woman In a Man's World" and "I Was Made To Love Him" are not titles you would expect to find on albums designed to keep up with current opinions on relations between sexes. But this is simply a Chaka Khan-oriented album, with room for anyone else who agrees with her. And the agreement is very important. For Khan's last album with Rufus, Streetplayer, the group operated under one management and Khan had another. The split widened...