Word: expects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This was not the kind of talk which experience with contemporaries back home had taught me to expect. I was at once amazed, terrified, excited, and pleased. And so began my experience of Harvard...
...college students prepare to return to classes, the question is not whether there will be calm on the campuses but whether the continuing protest wave can be kept below tidal proportions. TIME interviews at a score of institutions last week indicated that many university administrators expect renewed unrest, but they hope that defensive tactics developed from the cruel experiences of recent years, plus concessions to legitimate student demands, will prevent violence and the disruption of entire universities. At Dartmouth, Dean Carroll Brewster was discussing prospects for the fall when a loud noise outside his office window interrupted him. "That...
...their wheat acreage. In Australia, for example, the amount of farm land devoted to wheat has doubled in the last five years. Improved technology and a new high-yield strain of dwarf wheat have greatly reduced the annual import needs of food-shy India and Pakistan. Both countries now expect to become self-sufficient in wheat production by the mid-1970s...
Central Gulf and Lykes officials predict that their barge-carrying ships will pare the round-trip time on transatlantic voyages by half, to 30 days. Since transfers of cargo between barges and oceangoing ships will be eliminated, they also expect the vessels to cut shippers' breakage and pilferage costs, and to reduce the heavy investments many shippers must now make in warehouses and dock facilities...
...handled. Even towns on shallow rivers could get a crack at foreign commerce, since the average draft of a barge is only eight feet. Tulsa officials already plan to spend $20 million in the next two years to build a port to be named Catoosa, from which they expect to ship oil field machinery destined for Europe. Arkansas grain distributors, who export 40% of the 100 million bushels of grain that the state produces annually, plan to switch from rail to barges in order to get the grain to New Orleans for the start of the ocean voyage. Some residents...