Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Democrats said yesterday they expect the House to consider proposals for new taxes before the end of the year to make up the difference between the House package and the total deficit...
...expect the rate to increase further. Today, the ratio of people receiving benefits to workers paying for them is one to 3.3. By the time Social Security begins dipping into its imaginary trust fund in 2030, the ratio will be one to two. If benefits are not limited, the workers who foot the bill for our generation's retirees will suffer an unconscionable burden...
...doesn't look like a Shakespearean matinee idol, this thin-lipped Irishman with puddingy skin and a huge head piked like a pumpkin on his stocky frame. He lacks conventional star magnetism: the athletic abandon, the flaming sexuality, the audacity of interpretation that risks derision to achieve greatness. Expect no swooning teenagers to queue at his stage door, no desperate fan to write him suicide notes. Anyway, he would reject that form of hero worship, for his personality radiates shopkeeper common sense. He is a model of Thatcherite initiative in a British arts scene of radical distemper...
...look at people's experiences," he said. "I don't see any contradiction between having an intimate relationship and a total commitment to Christ." This prominent priest said his superiors have been quietly aware of his long-running, but not live-in, relationship with a fellow gay. They expect him to be judicious, he says, not to change...
Bush's aides also expect that the symbolism of a summit will help boost Gorbachev's faltering position at home. Said one: "The image of these two guys on cruisers in the Med, talking about the world, has to be a plus for Gorbachev." Yet Soviet officials say symbolism counts for little when their store shelves are empty and their restive nationalities are in turmoil. Last week alone Gorbachev got several doses of new trouble. Coal miners in Vorkuta, north of the Arctic Circle, struck in defiance of legislation that makes such walkouts illegal. Coal strikes earlier this year have...