Word: expectancies
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Most of the Olympians have college or graduate degrees and worked in white-collar Manhattanite jobs from which they did not expect to be booted. They range in age from the 23-year-old fired from his very first job to the 61-year-old garment industry worker who blames the Chinese for putting her fabric company out of business. They have been unemployed for an average of four months and most of them showed up alone. "Who am I going to bring?" asks Erika Garcia, an out-of-work contract lawyer. "My friends still have jobs...
...might expect such confidence from a well-seasoned upperclassman—not a bright-eyed freshman from San Diego, Calif., especially one forced to adjust to a higher level of play as well as a new climate. Brown, however, exhibits tenacity far beyond her years...
...London meeting will last only a day, and its agenda is potentially vast, so don't expect everything to be settled. Remember, too, that the outcomes of international summits are, in the jargon, "precooked." That is to say, unless something goes really wrong, the final communiqué will have been hammered out in advance by the summiteers' "sherpas" - the officials who do the heavy lifting for heads of government before the grand panjandrums get together for their little chats...
...Bearing those caveats in mind, expect the London summit to concentrate on four main issues...
...agreement that their mandates need rethinking. The IMF needs a fresh injection of cash if it is to help stabilize economies in a mess, and developing world nations - who will lead the recovery, when it comes - are campaigning for a greater role in shaping the priorities of these institutions. Expect the issue to be punted downfield for further discussion later in the year...