Word: expectantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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American experts find such revisionism a dramatic development. With establishment journals publishing criticism of Lenin, says Dimitri Simes of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, "nothing about Communism is sacred any longer in the Soviet Union." Robert Legvold, director of Columbia University's Harriman Institute, does not expect Lenin to go from icon to archvillain. "Lenin will be given an honorary place in Soviet history as the founder of the country," says he. "Yet, just as U.S. historians can show the warts of George Washington, Soviet historians will be able to do the same with Lenin...
...merely asking a coworker for a friendly favor, I would expect him to understand. To laugh about it, even. And maybe to analyze the motivation behind his actions a little more deeply...
...schedule ourselves much more efficiently than otherwise would be the case.' He proceeded to sketch out a formula for cutting yourself off from any unplanned encounter." And the unplanned encounter, Whyte concludes, is one of the joys of urban life: "You hear the point you didn't expect to hear...
...giant planets. (It will not encounter Pluto, whose bizarre orbit now places it closer to the sun than Neptune is.) Voyager's aging cameras and electronic sensors are somewhat impaired, and the probe is so distant that its signals take four hours to travel to earth. Still, scientists expect mounds of fresh data and some 8,000 photographic images, entirely new information about a little known object that is almost four times the size of earth but appears in earthly telescopes only as a fuzzy blue-green ball...
...whatever the outcome of the November election, Rainbow organizers say they expect the new group will eventually make its impact on the city political scene...