Word: wont
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nations to the war, Carter praises them for maintaining their "balanced" attitude toward the conflict. The evidence for this assertion: the fact that "none of the European countries would permit the United States to refuel its aircraft taking supplies to Israel..." With balanced support like this, Israeli leaders are wont to note, who needs enemies...
...COMING WEEKS and months, Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, to whom the dean of the College reports, will choose a method for finding Fox's successor. He may choose, according to his wont, to name an insider, to look nationwide, to reorganize the College's administration entirely. Whatever he does, we hope that he will speak directly to those familiar with Fox's successes and failures, his style and methods, before deciding what to do in the wake of Fox's departure. Specifically, Spence should solicit more than the views of those who are here for longer than...
During a campaign trip to rural Iowa, he outlined "a major initiative to assist farmers trying to cope with debt burdens." It was an emergency aid scheme of the kind Democrats are wont to suggest, involving a stretched-out repayment schedule for Government loans and federal guarantees of private credit. The package could cost as much as $1.3 billion...
...argues that those countries have become much more suited than the United States for this sort of high volume, standardized industry (read: organized labor's turf). They have access to lower priced labor and in some cases more natural resources. Therefore, if market forces act as market forces are wont to do, the U.S. will be priced out. Soon, the scenario goes, U.S. imports will increase and production jobs will dwindle mortally devastating an already weakened economy...
...after an initial stalemate between the new and the old forces, experience--as it is wont to do--prevailed...