Word: expected
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...certain triumph. The Stable Boy’s eyes glittered wildly. The folds of his tunic began to tremble.“Ollie,” he said, “you’ve been of great service to me. Take this money and never expect to see me again.”“Well this is ’andsome recompensation indeed!” said Ollie, weighing the stuffed purse in his little hands. “Where will you go now?”“To finish it,” said...
...While it may be extreme to expect U.S. district attorneys to demand the heads of Wall Street executives, the financial crisis has raised the stakes on white-collar sentences...
...monstrous carnage, foreigners shouldn’t be so quick to tell Indians what they did or did not experience. What is true, and a few pundits and pandits get this right, is that the global implications of the attacks will not be similar to 9/11. We should expect the global political climate in the weeks to come to be entirely different than it was eight winters...
...Most political experts expect the Minnesota election to be decided in the courts or even in the state senate. In short, it's a mess. But it's not that unusual. A look back at some similarly close - and even closer - races provides some lessons on where things might go in the Minnesota contest, the only remaining undecided 2008 Senate race. (Republican Saxby Chambliss thumped Democratic challenger Jim Martin in a Dec. 2 runoff...
...reason the negotiations have taken more than 10 weeks, Gel-Qonaf said, is the large number of people involved who expect to get a cut from any hijacking, ranging from pirate commanders to leaders of the embattled U.S.-backed transitional government of Somalia as well as its nemesis, the Islamist Shabab militia. Lowest in the pecking order, it seems, are the gunmen who actually captured the ships. (See pictures of Somalia's brazen pirates...