Word: expectance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Manhattan and environs, though, the spiel changes dramatically: Look here, Duryea says, if I hadn't agreed to the last-minute compromise the city would have floundered. The fact that he had no real choice--that he could not possibly have blocked the city's recovery and still expect to run for governor three years later--does not intrude on his creative analysis. Like a losing football coach who somehow manages to take credit for the other team's victory, Duryea has been able to double-talk and double-think his most notable legislative retreat into...
Some assembly representatives expect efforts to delete the minority clause to succeed this fall. However, such an amendment to the constitution could alienate minority groups, resulting in minority boycotts of the assembly similar to protests at other Ivy League schools...
...volatile issue of the West Bank and Gaza Strip will be played down in order not to hold up the treaty. Nonetheless, the Egyptian team will try to get as much linkage as possible between its Sinai deal and the future status of these occupied territories. The Egyptians expect the Israelis to make some unilateral gestures on the West Bank to parallel the Sinai talks. For one thing, they want the Israelis to dismantle their military government at about the time that an Israeli-Egyptian peace pact is signed. Another gesture could be the release of a sizable number...
...Japanese government had warned the Americans not to expect quick results. Yet the very fact that the mission was invited to Japan raised hopes that the barriers of high tariffs, endless import-icense red tape and discriminatory quotas were being lowered. The experience of the U.S. visitors was sobering. Quick fix trade deals like the one negotiated last January between the U.S. and Japan and whirlwind tours of businessmen are no way to solve the critical imbalances in world trade caused by Japan's insatiable urge to export and parsimonious reluctance to import. In fact, such cosmetic exercises only...
...Holland, who graduated last year but is still eligible because of his transfer status from Michigan. Holland has been a one-man dynamo so far with 369 yards carrying in 67 rushes, compared to 34 carries in all of last year. "Quite frankly," says Blackman, "we didn't expect that much from him because he just wasn't that impressive when he carried the ball last year...