Word: expectance
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...Taciturn and quicker of thought than speech, he's more interested in weighty ideas than personalities and clearly finds it puzzling that anyone should expect the softer reaches of his character to yield clues to his political landscape. He's analytical but not self-aware, sometimes so absorbed in big, important musings that he fails to straighten his tie or untuck his trouser legs from his socks or recognize his colleagues. At Labour's annual conference last fall, the premier-in-waiting made awkward progress around a reception organized by the party and full of potential donors, thrusting a large...
...failure since 1997, it's that we've let that trust and openness with the public go." Brown himself suggests an end to the culture of endless policy announcements and targets that defined and eventually undermined confidence in Blair's government. "You cannot just pull levers and expect things to happen," he says. "You've got to win public support." Indeed, Blair's failure to win public support for the war in Iraq proved a disastrous self-inflicted wound. As debate raged in 2003, Westminster watchers detected in Brown's unusually low profile a subtle criticism of government policy...
...Back home, such a marked shift in tone will play well. Britons may expect their Prime Minister to be warm and friendly, but Blair's frequent and effusive expressions of amity toward his chum in the White House made many of them feel queasy. On that front, at least, they might welcome a little British reserve from Grumpy Gordon...
USAGE Content piracy costs billions. But software, CD and DVD security is now so tight that critics say it curtails legitimate uses. Expect the arms race between hackers and hacked to continue...
...other hand, Cheney tells the Saudis that our only plan is to stay the course, leave Maliki in place, hold off a rising Republican revolt againt the war, and run out the clock for the last eighteen months of the Bush Administration, he can only expect the Saudis to continue making plans of their...