Word: expectancies
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...events in the book read like an unstoppable wave of progressivism. Isn't it kind of a fantasy to expect that to actually happen? Well, I tried to unleash almost everything short of detonations [on the main characters]. I mean, the other side really unleashed about everything they had, but you see, they weren't used to being taken on by the big guys or in ways they'd never seen before. They're used to meat-and-potatoes lobbying: put the ads on, get the think tanks going, throw more money in the PACs. Very traditional...
...Though he is an Asian Food Channel fixture (and its only Filipino chef), San Francisco-born Lim, 31 (pictured), is remarkably down-to-earth, his casual demeanor belying his French culinary training at London's Le Cordon Bleu. As you would expect from a TV personality, he's a supremely engaging host. But what people really come for is the food. (See 10 things to do in Singapore...
Drive along Kalayaan Avenue, home to Filipino-Chinese TV chef Bruce Lim, and you might think you've come to the wrong address: lined with pawnshops, sari-sari (convenience) stores and stalls hawking spit-roasted chickens, the neighborhood is decidedly lacking in the atmosphere you might expect to signal Manila's hottest dining ticket. Nonetheless, it is there - in a nondescript building with a steep bamboo-lined staircase leading up to Chef's Table, instantly recognizable to fans as the rooftop kitchen cum dining room used in Lim's shows. Your visit isn't being filmed, but in this intimate...
...retain separate leadership and separate budgets—which won’t be reduced, according to Mount. The OCS director said they aren’t reuniting, but “there may be more of an umbrella structure coming.” In the coming weeks, they expect to submit a proposal outlining their plans for cooperation to Hammonds. Among other joint online projects, the OIP and OCS are testing a new internet application with the Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship, a grant program for graduating seniors. They said they are now working out the bugs...
...heightens our concerns about the case because you would expect that if the government's allegations were based on strong evidence, that there would be charges brought based on terror-related evidence, not making false statements." - Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. (New York Times, Sept...