Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expect that the subjects discussed will often seem familiar. But we believe that they will be spiced with pungent viewpoints. We hope to see inventive use of the printed page. We hope to be amused, annoyed, brought up short, gain new understanding. Most of all, we expect the unexpected...
...technology of the weapons it is designed to intercept. The attacker can add chaff and decoys as "penetration aids" to confuse the defender's radar and exhaust the supply of ABMs. Says Wiesner: "I do not think the defender is ever going to know really what to expect; the variety of techniques available to a nation planning an offensive system is great enough to keep an anti-ballistic-missile system totally off balance...
South had no right to expect his partner to lap down the hand that he did, including the queen and the kind which were critical in the attainment of the somewhat dubious contract...
Magaziner, who wrote his senior honors thesis on "The Decline of Metaphysical Religion and Values in the West," is now preparing to joust with the authorities at Oxford's Balliol College. They expect him to follow a traditional doctoral program; he wants a sweeping, cross-disciplinary plan of his own design. Having already shaken up a 200-year-old university, Magaziner is not much intimidated by one that is three times older. Meantime, back at Brown, his impact can be measured by a widely quoted campus graffito: "Ira, please see me-God." "You come...
...prospect of increasingly stable prices. Government economists figure that the rate of rise in living costs may go up in the next few months because of seasonal factors, but that the index will be advancing at a fairly steady 4% annual rate at year's end. They expect the Government's anti-inflationary moves to have worked their restraints on prices by then, if not earlier...