Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just a guy coming out of Harvard," says R. Victor Jones, Wallace professor of applied physics. "He's been in the legislature for eight years, and one might expect that someone coming out of academia wouldn't survive in the dog-eat-dog world of politics, but he's done very well...
Ford's salvo came as GM was negotiating a joint venture and minority stake in the successful but cash-strapped British carmaker. Now analysts expect that GM may be forced to try to buy the firm outright to prevent Ford from making a hostile raid. Should the battle between the two U.S. giants become heated, analysts predict, Jaguar shares currently valued at $2 billion might fetch as much as $2.9 billion...
...moods -- the urge to deny risk and the urge to insist that we can protect ourselves from it entirely -- may be traceable to the same unfailing optimism. In a culture that has long fancied itself a New World paradise, disasters seem impossible either to imagine or to tolerate. People expect to conduct the pursuit of happiness along a road that is straight, well lighted and free of bumps...
...Applied to San Francisco, it means that a second quake there in a year or two would have a much greater impact. We could expect to see a significant out-migration from California," says geographer Curtis C. Roseman. "One quake doesn...
...scheduled speakers and topics do not reflect a balance of opposing viewpoints, as one would expect in an academic forum. Several of the speakers do not even have any particular expertise on the proposed topic. Though the forum is promoted as an intellectual exercise with the noble goal of opposing racism, it is more a not-so-subtle attempt to discredit Israel...