Word: expection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abroad, Washington will have missed a historic opportunity to end the cold war and begin moving the relations between the nuclear superpowers from competition to cooperation. And, some of the staunchest U.S. allies add, George Bush will have abdicated the leadership role the world has a right to expect from the President...
...Justices must decide how widely to rule: to strike down the Missouri law or to support it as compatible with Roe; they could also restrict or, less likely, overturn Roe. Many observers expect a fragmented court until further appointments produce a firm majority on one side or the other. As with some affirmative-action cases, even Justices who agree in an abortion ruling might disagree about the legal basis for their conclusions. Although the Justices were expected to vote on the case in a closed-door session last week, their decision is not likely to be announced until late next...
When her first TV series debuted on Oct. 15, 1951, there was no way to tell that Lucille Ball was beginning an apparently immortal love affair with the American public, and not much reason even to expect commercial success. Ball was a comely redhead with a semisultry voice and knockout legs, but she was also nearly 40 and a veteran of almost two decades in the supporting ranks of show business. She had been a movie actress but hardly a superstar; she had enjoyed moderate success in radio but had only fleeting experience in the new medium of video...
...associate handles the "gimmes," short putts that are often conceded by an opponent, can help you understand someone's personality. McCormack says that business people who assume a putt is a gimme -- even when it is 6 ft. away from the hole -- will never ask for a favor. They expect...
Some Wall Street experts predict painful new layoffs at many U.S. firms. "What the industry needs is a good housecleaning," says Lipper Analytical's Long, who argues that brokerages would need to dismiss 12,000 to 17,000 more employees to keep profits from sinking further. Other analysts expect a steady decline in the number of investment firms. Since the crash, membership on the New York Stock Exchange has fallen from 392 companies to 365, a decline of nearly 7%. The dropouts have either closed their doors or merged with stronger firms...