Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some cuts like the world's oldest frat band. Though they sound deceptively loose, they were tight enough to record many of Talk's songs in a single take. The result is the spontaneous, raw sound that marks the Stones' best work, a sound one has come not to expect from their recent albums or solo projects...
Administrators say that maintenance and recent renovations on houses and dorms have also weighed heavily in tuition increases. Next year, administrators say they expect room and board fees will reflect these renovation costs even more...
However, administrators say they do not expect the rises in tuitions to always be as far above inflation as they have been in the past few years...
...parents feel they have no choice. A college diploma, once the passport to upward mobility, is becoming a necessity just to avoid falling out of the middle class. Frank Levy, a University of Maryland economist, calculates that in the early 1970s a 30-year-old male college graduate could expect to earn at least 15% more than a 30-year-old with a high school diploma. By 1986 the gap had grown...
Still, the issue has not exactly caught fire. If middle-class discontent has been strong enough so far to deny Bush the landslide that unemployment and inflation figures might lead a follower of conventional wisdom to expect, it has not been sufficiently powerful to keep Dukakis from running behind. Many Americans, of course, base their votes on noneconomic criteria. Others associate Democrats with 1970s stagflation; they think, rightly or wrongly, that the Reagan expansion will continue and eventually improve their own financial status. Those who are hazily aware that their relative position is slipping often refuse to admit, even...