Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State Rep. Angelo Scaccia (D-Hyde Park),vice chair of the House Ways and Means Committee,said that he did not expect the amendment to beapproved...
Invoking the name of the late Vice PresidentHubert H. Humphrey, Flaherty said, "I hope wecontinue our commitment to provide for theservices that the people of the Commonwealth havecome to expect and deserve in order to meet ourbasic commitments to the have-nots, thehave-littles and the anxious haves...
...discourage sabotage by hackers, users must pledge to employ PEN for only legal purposes before they are allowed access to the system. "We expect to get a lot of the same questions we're getting now," says Assistant City Manager Lynne Barrette. " 'What's the status of a particular issue? To whom do I complain about the tree trimming on my street?' -- only via the computer...
...style realism and contemporary abstraction. There may be hundreds of costumes, but a lot of them look flimsy; they might have been basted together by the second-rate strippers in the You Gotta Have a Gimmick number from Gypsy. While the performers dance as brilliantly as one would expect from disciples of Robbins, most can't act very well, and there is not one striking singer in the entire company. The most problematic is Robert + La Fosse, a New York City Ballet star who moves gloriously but whose facial expression seems limited to a scowl and a simpering grin. Jason...
...become aware of events too late to prevent the exchanges, but did interfere at the later times in the evening to separate the individuals and to help calm matters. I did expect, after the first heated exchange had ended, that the Mather student would not go out of his way to approach my friends again. Of course, this expectation proved false...