Word: expected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both Democrats and Republicans agreed Dukakis would win the poll. "We'd be foolish to expect a Bush win," said David R. Ackley '91, co-chair of Harvard Students for Bush...
...There will be no appeal at all," he said. "We'll go back to the rent board; we will present the same things. I would expect them to act with reasonable consistency...
...Many politicians have come to expect business contributions as their due. Thomas Mann, director of governmental studies at Washington's Brookings Institution, describes PAC contributions and soft-money donations as a "mild form of extortion." Businesses, he argues, are only responding to pressure from politicians. "Congressmen let them know that if they don't play the game -- and it takes money to play -- then someone else will," Mann says. More and more, executives who refuse to become involved in politics via the money route could find it harder to do business...
...Bush wins on Nov. 8, panel members said they expect a difficult transition in the early months of his presidency...
First, college basketball teams, except for a few big-time clubs such as North Carolina and Georgetown, do not expect to draw more than 10,000 fans to each game. College teams also have a natural audience--the schools' students. Ticket prices to college games are usually not high. And college basketball does not have to be a money-maker. Breaking even is not cause for panic...