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Word: expectance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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When you break your neck and sever your spine, leaving your legs and hands paralyzed, you don't expect to drive a car. Of course, driving isn't your first concern. There are more elementary needs, like getting across a room or lifting a fork or signing your name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Craftsman of the Road | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

...quite obvious to all of us that of all the very qualified outside candidates, none of them approached his combination of abilities, skills and character that we thought we really need," Cox said. "He's the kind of person who combines the skills and intellectual competence you expect in a university with hands on experience...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hehir Named Divinity School Head | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

...quite obvious to all of us that of all the very qualified outside candidates, none of them approached his combination of abilities, skills and character that we thought we really need," Cox said. "He's the kind of person who combines the skills and intellectual competence you expect in a university with hands on experience...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hehir Named New Divinity School Head | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

...almost a year after its initial release. Hailing from Wales, the Manics have only grown stronger since the tragic disappearance of original lyricist Richey James, and This is My Truth, in equal parts political and passionate, picks up where the previous Everything Must Go left off. As you might expect from an album whose first single is called "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next," it's a dour piece. The wrenching anguish in James Bradfield's voice combines with Nicky Wire's lyrics ("I've got to stop smiling it gives the wrong impression") to create...

Author: By Daryl Sng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pretentious Perfection | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

...humiliating for the Chinese when they?re forced to back down in the face of U.S. military power," says Dowell. "They?re very aware of the need to avoid making huge threats from which they later have to back down." In the future, though, don't expect Beijing to cease from periodically testing U.S. resolve to get involved in the 50-year-old conflict across the Taiwan Strait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. To China: Don't Do Anything You'll Regret... | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

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