Word: hope
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rather dangle participles than the false hope that improved language will truly improve...
Every girl learns at a very young age that it is wrong to have sexual intercourse with a man without being married to him. This is in violation of one of the rules of society. I hope Lee Marvin [Jan. 15] doesn't have to pay that woman any money...
...years ago, President Jimmy Carter raised a glass of champagne in a toast to his first state visitor at the White House, President Jose López Portillo of Mexico. Said Carter: "The proximity to the United States, I hope, will become a blessing and not a curse...
...switching system by General Telephone and Electronics. Billions more in long-term contracts, covering such things as housing and highway construction and port development, remain still to be fulfilled by large corporations, including Ford and AT&T. Few if any civilian contracts have been canceled so far, and businessmen hope that socially useful projects like housing, hospitals and schools will survive no matter who winds up in power. Even so, many companies do not seem to know what to do. Says a Commerce Department staffer in Washington: "We have hundreds of companies that are very worried about this. They keep...
...companies believe their devices will build up a new home-entertainment industry that will complement rather than compete with the more expensive VTRS. They also hope to grab a share of the $2.4 billion a year that Americans currently lay out for movie admissions and the $3.5 billion they spend on records and tapes; when hooked up to a stereo system, videodiscs produce a better sound quality than regular records...