Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spain has had a 20% rise in tourism so far this year, and by the end of 1978, officials expect to have welcomed a whopping 37 million visitors-one for every Spaniard. Those numbers will probably continue to rise in the future, despite last month's calamitous explosion of a chemical truck killing more than 150 campers. The government has legalized gambling at 18 resorts, mainly on the coast, and four of the planned casinos have just opened. The 150-mile Costa del Sol is already overcrowded. Sewage treatment in some places is appalling; human feces...
...shown that in this wide-open economy a hard-nosed scrapper can beat the odds. His first big boss warned him not to expect to rise too high in banking because grandsons of Lebanese immigrants can't make it big in that Wasp world. Abboud was not impressed, and several years ago he beat out three other candidates to become chairman of First Chicago Corp., parent of First National Bank of Chicago. He savors the perks: the chauffeured limo that picks him up in the exurbs at 6 a.m.; the ballroom-sized corner office decorated with Oriental artifacts...
...bruited, including those of some non-Italians. Most of the candidates defy easy labeling, for as Britain's Peter Hebblethwaite, veteran Catholic editor and Vatican expert, wrote in The Spectator just before Paul's death: "Any candidate who comes along with a conservative or progressive label must expect to be defeated. The next Pope cannot be the Pope of a faction within the church. He will have to rule from the center and be the servant of unity...
...studying a system of education that has been bullying and beloved, tyrannical and anarchic, rigorous and howlingly inept. Memorize the ways in which a relatively insignificant number of masters and students created an ethos that spread, via the British Empire, worldwide. Questions will be asked later, and laggards can expect a caning...
...limitations of the company, and despite an audience which laughed at all the wrong places (one woman was apparently tripping, since she laughed all through the play), the apprentice crew manages to send you out of the threater affected and even troubled. Granted, this is the least one can expect of serious theater, but not every production meets the challenge...