Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...honorable gentleman and you expect investment to exceed ultimate dividends? In any event, the amount that leaves the", area is peanuts compared with what stays behind for payrolls, taxes, purchases of local supplies and services, etc. Let's keep the problem in its proper perspective...
...create in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan; because of that strength, the Administration has requested $800 million in its foreign aid bill for economic assistance to Asia outside Viet Nam. Formal mutual-defense commitments such as the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) will be honored, but the U.S. will expect Asians to bear more of the military load. Counterinsurgency operations will be handled on a country-to-country basis. The basic premise is that the U.S. will support its allies in war, but will not fight for them...
...jumbo jets may cut operating expenses about 25%. But before the money-saving giants start taking off, airmen expect damaging labor strikes. The first strikes will probably hit in early August and could force some cancellations of vacation flights. As much as 45% of an airline's operational expenses consists of labor costs. Every additional wage increase would cut closer to the quick. In the longer run, some mergers seem almost inevitable to reduce the problems of climbing costs and too much competition for too little traffic. If the U.S. can get by with only four auto manufacturers...
...some of the smaller companies admit that a desire to get a piece of the huge job prompted them to submit unusually attractive bids. Charles M. Pigott, president of Pacific Car and Foundry Co., says: "It's a more complex job than we anticipated. We don't expect to make any money." Other companies claim to be satisfied with their profits...
...salesman begin his talk wit "I'm from the church"), exhorts God to grant these good men "an abundant harvest." A salesman stands up and, an affirmation of fait, declares before the assembled conference (moral witnesses all), "I expect6 to make $35,000 next year." Applause. "Yeah, well, I expect to make $50,000." More applause...