Word: expectation
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...summer before my first year, my mailbox was predictably flooded with paper. Between curriculum guides and rooming forms and unsolicited letters from the German department, it looked like Harvard was a primary culprit for deforestation. Along with all that paper came an abundance of something I didn't expect: advice. Everyone from Crimson Key to the Harvard Independent had wisdom to impart: Compete in intramurals. Be open-minded. Make new friends. Take German...
...this year, 88 Internet companies have issued 432 million new shares, raising $12 billion, reports Thomson Financial Securities Data. That's more new Internet shares in five months than were minted in 1997 and 1998 combined. And 90 more companies expect to raise some $8 billion through new offerings this summer, Merrill Lynch reports...
...players themselves aren't always quite what you'd expect. Kesselring, 32, for instance, is an Ohio computer-network engineer with a wife and three kids. "We all play together," he says. "For us, Everquest has pretty much replaced...
...indeed the day showed both the best of times and the worst of possibilities--but not always in the ways you might expect. At Pine Street the yellow and white tent was donated, as were the flowers. A cerulean sky and cool morning air hung over the neighborhood's old brick buildings. Reich pondered his speech, in which he would remind the recently derelict grads that the great economy isn't trickling down to everyone; that the vagaries of life--and the inevitable economic downturn--would try them again. Couldn't he be more optimistic on this, their...
...mean movement: frantic, farcical, talking-car movement in Inspector Gadget (with Matthew Broderick as the patched-together robocop), or hip, Tim Burtonish bustle in the comic book-derived Mystery Men (with Ben Stiller, Hank Azaria and Janeane Garofalo as all-too-human superheroes). But even in the action films, expect muscles to give way to giggles...