Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more immediately, these young teams will square off with arch-rival Yale in a dual meet on Friday in New Haven. Led by seasoned upperclassmen, while revitalized by a large handful of upstart frosh, these Harvard teams expect to do quite well, perhaps as a sign of the many successful things to come...
...approaches to the teacher conference. The ingratiators (like me) try to win over the teacher on their child's behalf. This involves lots of smiling, nodding and offers of Florida time shares over the spring break. The intimidators get in the teacher's face--to tell him what they expect and demand attention to their children's individual needs and just generally show him who's boss...
...sofas are the last thing you'd expect people to buy online, stocks might be the first. "Financial service is a paper transaction," says Gomez Advisors' Dan Burke. "There's no need to worry about shipping, returns or any of the stuff that makes regular e-commerce so challenging." Yet it will be December before Merrill Lynch, the company that brought "Wall Street to Main Street," offers its first $29.95 online trade. That will be more than three years after both a tiny upstart called ETrade and the discount brokerage Charles Schwab began allowing investors to trade stock...
AIDS ALERT Doctors have come to expect that patients undergoing long-term treatment for AIDS may develop a drug-resistant strain of HIV. Now a report finds that at least 16% of newly infected patients are also resistant to one or more of the drugs in the new AIDS cocktails, making the quest for additional drugs all the more important...
...Nobel awards were founded in 1991 by Abrahams. The awards are intended to make light of "things that a lot of people expect to be intimidated by and not to like," Abrahams said. This category includes everything from science to opera. Besides a number of science demonstrations, last night's ceremony included a four-act opera that mixed tunes from Carmina Burana and other operas into a story that examined the issues of cloning humans and sheep...