Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hooft summed up the contest accurately without mincing words: "You can't start a game like that and expect...
...American life. For example, the American penchant for asking the individual Chinese citizen how he feels about things and how he would criticize the situation, etc., may not fit into the Chinese cultural environment. Visitors to China are supposed to stay out of local politics, but how can one expect red-blooded Americans to refrain from promoting human rights? Our 19th century promotion of Protestant Christianity in China made its contribution, and the spirit of proselytism for the American way is still latent in most of us. Experience abroad tends to draw it forth and we almost inevitably find ourselves...
...unreasonable to expect that in the long run many good and liberal students will decide to enroll elsewhere if the association between our public policy school and apartheid sticks in the public mind...
...THIS SOUNDS very reasonable--if you are a corporate president or counsel. The students and others here expect more than textbook public relations gimmickry from a rich, non-profit and supposedly moral institution like Harvard. Yet, although the Corporation publicly refuses to apply political or moral criteria to its donors, Bok and the members of the Corporation do negotiate with and even reject the bearers of certain politically questionable gifts, albeit only in extreme cases. For example, Steiner this week revealed Bok's previously undisclosed rejection of a large donation from a "rather repressive government that seemed to be trying...
Captain Kathy Lowry seemed frustrated but not without hope after the match. Since Powell has been in a slump and Laforet had been sick, there is reason to expect improvement, she said...