Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cheese Was No Lure. This is the time to expect the unexpected. Desert jack rabbits like to feed on insulation. Once a kangaroo rat was found nesting in an essential instrument at the last minute. An atomic engineer tried to lure him out with cheese, but kangaroo rats don't eat cheese. Hundreds of nervous technicians waited until one found out how to catch a rat. In the lonely hours between midnight and 3 a.m., Graves is still checking, between catnaps and gin rummy games. To help predict the blast effects of each atomic explosion, World War II Navy...
...home, the Eden government plans to keep the welfare state and maintain full employment. "Any economist who talks of pools of unemployment should be thrown in and made to swim in one," says Chancellor Butler flatly. But Eden and Butler both expect to pay more attention to "Tory democracy," meaning tax cuts to stimulate investment, slum clearance by private builders, better roads and railroads...
Admissions officials at graduate schools here do not expect the change to cause a marked increase in applications. Kendall Emerson, Jr., assistant dean of the Faculty of Medicine, said, "We probably would not approve of a student's splitting up his studies by taking two years of military service in the middle of his four year program...
Dean Rogers of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences also did not anticipate many more applicants, explaining, "Theoretically, we might expect a slight increase in the number of applicants. However, as most of our students come here seeking a Ph.D., which almost inevitably requires more than two years, I do not think the change would help them very much, and I do not expect many more applications...
Overall, Government and most private economists believe that consumer credit is still within limits. The big upsurge is due to the fact that more people than ever are able to buy more goods. Barring a drastic recession in the near future, which no economists expect, it looks as if consumers will be able to pay off their present debts-and keep right on buying...