Word: expectance
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...formed a national government. Usually winning between 16 and 22 per cent of the national popular vote, and never having won a single seat in Quebec, the NDP does not have a realistic chance of forming a government in the near future. About the most the NDP can realistically expect in Canada's upcoming election is to repeat its 1972 electoral performance and gain the strategic balance of power position in Parliament...
...effort to "expand theater participation at Harvard." Presumably Toope means the new director could, if he chose, use his repertory company to train amateur but interested students and bring more students planning a theater career to Harvard in the first place. Again, although I support Brustein, I do not expect he would necessarily want to do this. I realize Brustein himself has been ambiguous about these matters. Still, I imagine his basic interests are obvious--and that few undergraduates could participate in the professional program of a newly-created Harvard School of Drama seems to me neither unfortunate nor even...
...Winthrop is a lively house, and we will concentrate on keeping it that way," Davis said yesterday. "My wife and I expect to spend the first year doing some on-the-job training," he added. "We have a lot to learn...
...Grammercy, Weber expressed confidence the court would decide in his favor. "It's been almost four years since the suit was filed and I didn't expect to get near this status," he said. "I would have been satisfied to have resolved at any time in the past four years, but I guess it's too important to be settled this early...
Presuming, that is, that Christmas sales go as well as Bergerac and other cosmetics executives have every reason to expect. About one-third of all their sales are rung up between Thanksgiving and Christmas, when men indulge their women and women indulge themselves. Tis the season when department-store cosmetics counters are jammed and the air redolent of thousands of mixed scents as women spray themselves with a bit of this and a touch of that. Men's eyes are often struck by the sight of a woman daubing lipstick onto her hand to get a better idea...