Word: expected
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...understand it. Spiro Agnew has decided that you can't expect objective news coverage from the dollar-minded mass media...
There was little reason to expect opposition when the 57-year-old judge was nominated for the high court in August. Haynsworth had served on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals for twelve years, and had done little to arouse adamant opposition. During confirmation hearings, however, liberal Senators raised conflict-of-interest charges. They showed that Haynsworth had failed to disqualify himself in two cases where he had financial interest: a 1963 case between a union and a firm that did business with a vending machine company partly owned by Haynsworth, and a 1967 case involving the Brunswick Corp., whose...
Rearranging the Portfolio. Moneymen expect that it will take the Vatican some time to shed all of its unwanted stock holdings. The church has retained a small number of Immobiliare shares, but recently sold its controlling interest in Italiana Condotte Acqua, a major construction firm, to a leading Italian holding company, Bastogi...
...problem in carrying out the new "Pauline policy" is how to keep the Vatican's income high while rearranging its portfolio. Accordingly, financial men expect the church to invest more funds outside Italy than it has in the past. By adopting a low domestic profile as a capitalist, the Pope hopes in time to erase the "Vatican satellite" image from Italian companies...
...Pockets. Early this month, a grand jury in Jackson, Miss., charged that the state insurance commission is "in the pockets of the insurance companies." The jurors added: "The people of Mississippi can only expect to be skinned by these companies." Last week a grand jury at Pascagoula handed in another critical report. Most of the controversy centers around Commission Member Erskine Wells, a lawyer whose firm represents many insurance firms, and State Insurance Commissioner Walter Dell Davis, an ex-officio member of the commission, who has been accused of being too cozy with insurers. In the wake of the storm...