Word: expections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WEST CHESTER, Pa.--Change the scenery, change the importance of the game, but don't expect a different result...
...lives tolerable, at least until recently. While it is true that they grumble about long lines and shortages, workers also appreciate guaranteed employment and low prices for life's necessities -- housing, medical care, basic foods. Their education and everything they have heard from the media have led them to expect that they could enjoy economic benefits equal to those of capitalism with none of the risks or pain...
This may make it unrealistic to expect top appointees to spearhead a women's agenda. By the time women reach the top, they may have become so inured to the power games required to succeed that any uniqueness may have been suppressed long...
...would almost certainly refuse a power-sharing deal anyway. The official rebel position is that Najibullah can have an amnesty but his surrender of power is a precondition to peace talks. In their view, he is the enemy, and Afghans have little inclination to forgive foes. "How can you expect the people to forget the blood loss of families, the destruction of entire villages?" asks a guerrilla leader in Peshawar. "How can you expect them to give up that feeling and say, 'Fine, let's sit down and talk'? It is like asking the Jews to pardon the Nazis...
...California's Alameda County, which includes Oakland, are on the verge of taking that seemingly drastic step. In April, the Oregon senate passed a bill that would extend Medicaid coverage to 86,000 low-income people previously not covered. There would, however, be limits to the care they could expect. The measure, now before the lower house, would also establish a commission of experts and consumers to rank health services in order of importance; the legislature would then decide which to finance. Oregon has already set up committees of doctors, nurses and social workers to & establish priorities in four medical...