Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also different to be competing in front of judges from Iowa than judges from the East because they expect different things," she added. "Next year we'll know what it means to go to nationals...
...also different to be competing in front of judges from Iowa than judges from the East because they expect different things," she added. "Next year we'll know what it means to go to nationals...
...that, Bill Clinton counsels patience "if we expect to see this mission through." NATO vows that the bombing will go on, day after day, week after week, until Milosevic cries uncle. But what if, having gobbled up Kosovo, he simply stops fighting and declares victory instead? How will patience cope with that...
...Harry Potter will seem familiar to anyone who has ever read a decent fairy tale. Harry, 11, is an orphan who lives with his aunt and uncle, Petunia and Vernon Dursley, and their son Dudley. Is it worth pointing out that the Dursleys are as dreadful as one might expect of people named Dursley--they make that step-family of Cinderella's seem merely ill-tempered by comparison--and that young Dudley is a fat, spoiled bully who keeps breaking Harry's glasses...
When she entered graduate school at UCLA five years ago to pursue a Ph.D. in English, Connie Razza, 26, hardly expected to be a campus activist. But she also didn't expect a workload like this: for one undergraduate literature course this semester, Razza gives lectures, runs a discussion section, grades papers and exams, and holds office hours in a basement room where 40 other teaching assistants share 29 desks and one computer. For 30 hours a week of such labor, she earns about $1,400 a month--which doesn't even cover her rent, tuition, books and car payments...