Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal bureaucracy now employs 2.8 million people and spends about $461 billion a year, too much of it wasted. President Carter pushed through a bill that would reduce the machine and streamline it, but veteran bureaucrats expect little change. Their methods of resistance were described in unusual detail in the New Republic earlier this month by a Department of Agriculture insider who called himself James North. He also changed the names of his fellow employees. Excerpts...
...will also ease, causing interest rates to fall. The prime rate on loans to big companies should move down from a peak of 12½% this spring to 9½% a year from now. The general lessening of demand should make a dent in inflation. TIME'S economists expect consumer prices, which surged 9% last year, to go up 8.3% this year and 6.8% in 1980. That certainly would not amount to victory over inflation, but at least the trend would be favorable...
...also cautioned a friend against excess criticism: "To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness...
Sure, a team needs an individual medleyist or two and a good man in each stroke, but because there are five freestyle events in every swimming meet (plus relays), no coach can expect to win many meets without a strong corps of freestylers...
...possible time limit there might be on a state's request, how to choose the delegates and apportion votes in the convention, and whether the convention should refuse to propose an amendment it was summoned to consider. Although the Constitution never mentions these questions, there is no reason to expect Congress will meet serious opposition to an act outlining a convention's procedural details. Senator Sam Ervin (D-N.C.) proposed and the Senate adopted just such a bill twice already, in 1971 and 1973, but the House never approved it. And there are legal precedents applicable to each question...