Word: expectant
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...best cover you've run in years--a man we can trust to tell it "like it really is." We little ol' unimportant taxpayers with no tax loopholes are just looking for accountability and transparency in the government, as we were promised and as we expect from the people who serve us. Glenn Beck for TIME's Person of the Year...
...higher-yielding currencies, since foreign-currency deposits will earn more in interest and could make additional foreign-exchange gains. Interest rates in Australia last week were raised a quarter point to 3.25%, and could go higher still. The unemployment rate Down Under recently fell to 5.7%, leading economists to expect another rate rise on Nov. 3. Meanwhile, the target range for the U.S. federal funds rate...
...Although Selebi's trial signifies a step forward in prosecuting allegations of corruption in South Africa, few expect it will do much to clean up the country's politics. With the prosecutor's dropping the corruption case against Zuma weeks before he was elected, the allegations against him remain unresolved. And while Zuma has taken pains to include a broad spectrum of leaders from different parties and factions within the ANC in his Cabinet, his appointment earlier this month of Mo Shaik to head South Africa's intelligence service raised a few eyebrows. Shaik's brother Schabir Shaik was convicted...
...could find themselves no better off than before. “Even if it does work, if they turn it on and find nothing new at all—if they don’t find [the hitherto unseen] Higgs Boson, for example, or if they find stuff they expect to discoverer and nothing else, it is unclear what the future of that field is,” said Stubbs...
...thing that we hope for the most is something that is completely surprising and confusing,” said LeCompte. “In science you don’t learn anything by getting the answer you expect...