Word: awaited
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...least a decade's worth of uninspired and ineffectual liberalism. The traditional Keynesian policies of government spending and job creation sit battered on the ropes along with their Democratic sponsors. As productivity replaces equality as the nation's key objective of social policy, regulation and humanitarian programs await the scissors of congressional budget cutters...
...does not promise to turn a felon into a bank president. In any case, a more informed judgment on facial surgery's potential for changing personality probably must await release of a study now under way at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Meantime, prisoners continue to apply for surgical work that may cost taxpayers $2,000 to $4,000. But even at that, it may be the cheapest rehabilitation program going...
Bicycles still zip around with an aura of childishness, of unseriousness. They still await the mass discovery that they are in fact splendidly functional. They will never replace cars, but they can provide quick, superior transportation for great numbers of people daily over short distances, at tremendous savings in fossil fuels and breathable air. The bike rider also knows that riding one as the day begins is a brief pure aubade of exertion and contemplation. Why else would cyclists risk it? Then, too, subconsciously, the bicyclist may be engaged in a long-term Darwinian wager: In 100 years, which mechanism...
...more than a play-mate. He should tell us that we only live once and should therefore sleep with our best friends' wives, or let us know that it is wrong to manipulate friendships by manipulating facts. Pinter has laid the groundwork for such conclusions, but we still await them...
Backers of Proposition 2 1/2--mostly state businessmen--call the claims of Sullivan and others "scare tactics." Their advertisements tell voters that disaster does not await the passage of the referendum; rather, they say, it will force the legislature to reform the state's tax system. While reform to decrease dependence on the antiquated property tax is needed, it is foolhardy to trust the legislature to provide that relief. The legislature, after all, originally enacted and has since maintained the property...