Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard-liners believe that the revolution has not yet accomplished its task, bitterly oppose retaining any vestige of royalty. Papadopoulos may prevail upon them to let him bring out the proposed constitution, which he hopes to submit to a public vote on Sept. 1. Even so, he can hardly expect the document to afford him much more protection than the earlier one gave former Premier Panayotis Kanellopoulos, when Papadopoulos decided to have him arrested. He is still under house arrest...
...yacht with its crew of twelve. They follow the big and little seasons on such a clockwork schedule that they often don't even have to wire ahead. "When it's time for me to be in Paris, for instance," says Gloria, "the people there know when to expect...
...shipments to such key outlets as Port Arthur and Fort William on Lake Superior. Toronto shippers laid off 500 longshoremen. Executive Director Andrew W. Fleming of the Detroit-Wayne County Port Commission estimated that the tie-up was costing Michigan business $500,000 a day in lost revenues. "We expect some such stupidity as this about ten days a year," said President John D. Leitch of Toronto's Upper Lakes Shipping Ltd., "and we try to allow for it in our pricing system...
...Styron to task for referring to Nat Turner by his first name. "Is this familiarity by the author part of intuitive white condescension and adherence to Southern racial etiquette? Is this reference and the entire book an unconscious attempt to keep Nat Turner 'in his place'? Would the novelist expect Nat Turner to address him as 'Mr. Styron'? Perhaps no one can ever know the answers to these questions...
Detroit is counting on the last six months' being as rewarding as the first. In this mood, automakers are unloading heavy summer inventories on their dealers-some 2,920,000 cars against 2,270,000 last year. Nor do most automakers expect a setback when the 10% surtax nips at buyers' paychecks. Says Chrysler President Virgil Boyd: "The public has been oriented to the inevitability of a tax increase for a year...