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Word: expect (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paralyzed from the chest down, he finds his sex life over before it begins. In horrifying rants, he abuses his parents, his country and himself. This Ron is not a nice person or even, in his hippie garb, a nice-looking one. Moviegoers who expect to find the best of America in Cruise's face will instead discover a haunting mug shot of the nation's Viet Nam nightmare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...demonstrations are designed to shock. "We expect tempers to run high," says Jay Blotcher, an ACT UP spokesman. "We target Roman Catholicism because no other religion so energetically tries to influence public policy." Outside four Catholic churches in Los Angeles last week, ACT UP protesters offered free condoms and safe-sex pamphlets to parishioners. Members of the group have occupied drug-company offices to demand lower prices for AIDS medicines, chained themselves to a banister at the New York Stock Exchange, and staged same-sex "kiss-ins" at last year's Democratic and Republican national conventions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In A Rage over AIDS | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...Deputies had barely begun last week when a bald, stoop-shouldered man hesitantly made his way to the front of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Mikhail Gorbachev motioned for Deputy Andrei Sakharov to step up to the podium, then settled back in his seat, not quite sure what to expect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Face-Off on Reform | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...score 24 points in a half and expect to win. We were taking shots that were just not good shots," Healey said. "The game was lost in the first half...

Author: By Angela M. Payne, | Title: W. Cagers Grin and Bear Loss | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...banks and the Government already own an awful lot of homes -- 250,000 would be a rough estimate -- which alone is reason to expect prices to be weak. The Resolution Trust Corp., set up to sell off the holdings of hundreds of failed S&Ls, is pledged to avoid triggering a price crash. Yet this is an arm of the same Government, after all, that actually lost money auctioning off confiscated drug loot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: When a House Is Just a Home | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

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