Word: expectant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last year's campaign there were one or two areas where I felt that we needed to use the tax system to achieve various ends." Democratic leaders too have lost the faith; their proposed expansion of IRAs would also violate the no-special-breaks principle. Consequently, Congress can expect a flood of demands from other taxpayers who will claim that their income deserves special treatment. Writing in the Washington Post, Senator Bradley gloomily predicted that "the llama farmers, along with all the other dealmakers and tax-shelter merchants who had shut up shop, will put the OPEN FOR BUSINESS sign...
Though few observers expect wholesale reversals of established precedents, most would agree with Harvard University law professor Laurence Tribe that the court is likely to "tune them down." Says Tribe: "Americans have been accustomed to the idea that the Supreme Court is a refuge for the disadvantaged, the dispossessed and the dissident. We are entering an era in which increasingly the court will be less a court of last resort." One result is that many would-be federal lawsuits will be filed in more liberal state courts; another is that legal disputes may be translated into political battles...
...forward's job to score, and we couldn't do it," senior forward Derek Mills said. "But when you play for a good team, you expect goals to come from everywhere, and it's not happening...
WITH or without a large Harvard contingent, success should grace Saturday's marchers. The easiest way to measure this success is just to count heads. Organizers expect a million people but probably will not get more than half that. That's okay, though; even a third of a million is comparable to the largest Washington demonstrations...
...biggest task facing the new director will be to implement all the provisions of the contract which HUCTW and the University expect to complete in the next few weeks. Contract provisions include a new short-term disability leave plan, changes in the pension plan and an elaborate system for coping with employee grievances...