Word: expectations
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...seat that has been traditionally Jewish since 1916, but Nixon never promised to abide by that custom. Privately, the President says that he does not consider that there is a Jewish, Catholic or Negro seat on the court. Haynsworth is a sitting federal judge who, at 56, can expect at least ten or 15 years on the Supreme Court bench. His decisions have been moderate to conservative on civil rights, and occasionally liberal in cases involving the rights of criminals. But above all, Haynsworth is a strict constructionist who subscribes to Nixon's dictum that...
...meteorologist. Surprise also added to the toll on the Gulf Coast, where it had been thought that Camille was headed for Florida. So, however, did overconfidence in the face of the storm. "Most of these people have been through hurricanes before, and we had no reason to expect that this one would be so bad," said Pass Christian Mayor J. J. Wittmann...
Some funds have been battered so badly that Wall Street elders expect management upheavals soon. Nonetheless, the funds, as well as many individual investors, remain deeply committed to the performance game. In their search for new favorites with which to play, they have seized on Natomas as an available game and made a virtue of the uncertainty about the company's oil prospects. To speculators, says Lucien Hooper of W. E. Hutton & Co., Natomas' merit is precisely that "no one can tell what it is worth...
...human to want to tear down that which has been built up too far. Americans have borrowed their notion of statesmanship in large part from the Romans, who emphasized dignity and piety. Perhaps they should have taken some lessons from the Greeks as well, who knew better than to expect more than moderately good conduct from their leaders. A quest for perfection was hubris and ended in disaster...
...Sharon Caudle, 24, an insurance company trainee. "If I can meet all these men for $3 a month, then I'm getting my money's worth." The feeling is widespread, and a quarter of the club's 2,000 members are single women. Bank officers had expected to enroll 2,200 young Houstonians in the first year, but that goal has already been reached and 500 new members are signing up each month. More surprising, they maintain an average balance of $250, and bank officers expect that the club will soon become profitable as well as promotional...