Word: expection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sexy, an inborn talent that was nurtured by some early vocational training. "You're talking to someone who used to be a male stripper," he says. "It was all show business, and it's probably helped with my presentation." Just so no one gets too comfy with what to expect of Gift, he has signed up to do a production of Romeo and Juliet later this year in the north of England, and is reading the script for a part in a Sylvester Stallone movie. "I've been asked," Gift reports, "to play one of his muscles." He smiles. Sure...
...brother Michael and I were stopped by police last week in Brookline, where we live. This was the second time in my 22 years of existence that I have been stopped by police. Both times were in the last four years; should I expect the fate of being stopped every other year to continue...
...extreme resolution," Pines said. "I would expect that on other occasions, the issue would be somewhat limited." Nevertheless, she said there were 21 "solid pro-choice votes" in the Senate...
...Charleston, which he built from a small operation into the nation's 18th largest brokerage. His politics, like his business management, depends on a salesman's enthusiasm and a willingness to listen. "I've never felt I had all the brains or all the answers," says Caperton. "If you expect more from people and respect what they have to say, it improves performance tremendously...
What kind of mother would expect her 15-year-old daughter to jump off a tower while strapped with wings to prove that mankind can fly? What kind of daughter, after being cowed by such a mother, would so quake at the parent- child bond that she would abandon her toddler to relatives and head off to Europe to teach? What kind of child, growing up as the object of battle between such willful women, would prove at once fiercer and more forgiving than either...