Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Engineers with a B.A., for example, can expect to start at $712 a month, compared with $676 for 1966 graduates; math majors may earn $636, against $605 for last June's seniors...
...dialogues with Orthodox prelates on the question of possible reunion. The more promising young priests are now being sent to Germany and Greece for graduate study-and already the church is being plagued by a few fiery clerics, who, Luther-like, are demanding radical reform. Nonetheless, educated Ethiopians expect that real progress will be slow in coming. Despite its shortcomings, the church remains serene in its conviction that it possesses the true apostolic faith...
...past, it has also been traditional for a President to leak some significant elements of his State of the Union address so that incoming Congressmen might have some notice of what to expect. Presidential Press Secretary Bill Moyers, who leaves to be come publisher of Newsday in February, has already completed several drafts of the address, and flew down to the ranch last week to talk it over with Johnson. Yet there have been no meaningful hints about what Johnson intends to concentrate on, and the silence has led, in fact, to speculation that the State of the Union address...
...world's oldest known map" has fortunately not been missing for years, but has been and is safely housed in the Baghdad Museum (item No. 50711), Iraq. What our student saw was only a plaster cast of the object, but how can one expect a sophomore to know a cast when he sees...
When his home town of Columbia, S.C., held an elaborate "day" in his honor just five years ago, former Secretary of State James Byrnes chuckled: "Few people have an opportunity to hear themselves funeralized. Momentarily I expect someone to say, 'Don't he look natural?' " Now 87, Jimmy Byrnes and Maude, his wife of 60 years, were still looking mighty spry as they posed in his office under the portraits of some of Jimmy's old acquaintances-Molotov, Roosevelt, Stalin and Eisenhower. Long retired from statecraft, Jim keeps active by overseeing the James F. Byrnes Foundation...