Word: expectancies
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Over the past few weeks, Toys "R" Us has been quietly testing the "R" Market in select stores across the country. Sales "are running ahead of where we expected," says Storch. However, customers at the Toys "R" Us in Phillipsburg, a town that sits on the New Jersey-Pennsylvania border, were for the most part unimpressed. Over the course of two hours on a Friday afternoon, only a handful of customers even wandered over to the "R" Market, which had been open for about two weeks. Granted, the store wasn't exactly packed in the toy aisles either...
...might expect, such ideas aren’t exactly in line with China’s current government. As a participant in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Tian sidesteps any outright derision of the Communist party. When pressed for an opinion, Tian says, “Nothing lasts forever. In the grand scheme of history, it’s really a very short period of time...
...statewide office. He scoffs at such talk, and says, "I didn't go to see people in Montgomery to get permission to run for governor, and I won't. I'm trying to get permission from the people I'm seeing today - the voters." Davis says he did not expect support from the state's Democratic establishment - and that helped him decide to announce his candidacy early. He needs as much time as possible to build a campaign apparatus. He certainly has a war chest to start building that operation: nearly $1.1 million...
...tradition of verbal constructs—slut, skank, whore—that construe women as sub-human sexual objects. Urban Dictionary defines the cougar in terms of the sexual stimulation that she provides to men and her lack of emotional attachment: Cougars “don’t expect you to call the next day, and don’t require much cuddling after a good one night stand.” One particularly graphic entry describes the cougar as a miserly divorcee who was once the “town slut?...
...from studying here,” she wrote. Office of International Programs Director Catherine H. Winnie suggested in an e-mail yesterday that the value of the international experience in France may not be entirely compromised even for those Harvard students who are experience difficulties. “I expect that our students will have some interesting tales to tell about studying in Paris, and have an enhanced understanding of French culture after these strikes,” Winnie wrote...