Word: expected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Deng's task now is to put the Humpty-Dumpty coalition back together again. Unlike his predecessor, Mao Tse-tung, Deng has never striven for absolute dominance but instead has shown himself a master at finding the center of the shifting political debate. Foreign observers expect him to remain in power, but with somewhat diminished support. "It would be hard to conceive of Deng being toppled," says Kenneth Lieberthal, director of the - University of Michigan's Center for Chinese Studies. Experts also agree that while the pace of Deng's reforms may be slowed, they will not be rolled back...
...sanctions in kind with counter-retaliatory steps that would close its markets even more to U.S. goods and services. But most Japanese manufacturers, while indignant about the U.S. offensive, hope the two governments will come to a negotiated settlement before hostilities escalate. Said a Sony spokesman: "We don't expect that they will let things go to an outrageous extent...
...undertaken by either the Premier or the President -- alone. Under the unwritten rules of cohabitation, more elaborate occasions, like last year's Western economic summit in Tokyo, require the presence of both Chirac and Mitterrand. Though each scrupulously observes the courtesies due the other's office, both expect to be received in equally grand style. They usually travel aboard separate aircraft, hold separate meetings with foreign leaders and are prickly about details, right down to the seating arrangements at banquets. The two leaders have learned to speak for France "with one voice from two mouths," as a member of Chirac...
...account that emerges from that brief visit is, as one would expect, quickened by a novelist's eye. Rushdie the symbolist notes that the wife of the deposed dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle was named Hope and that the Ministry of Culture goes by the acronym MINICULT. Rushdie the ironist observes that the campesinos battling "U.S. imperialism" dine to the radio accompaniment of Born in the U.S.A...
Iranscam revelations from a White House computer bear a lesson for all: do not expect the office system to keep any secrets...