Word: expect
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...anathema for the mainland government. Ostensibly, Chinese communists appeal to a sense of nationalism as justification for these threats, which are becoming more or less a challenge to their brethren on Taiwan to surrender or be destroyed. Among the warnings was a statement of conditions for which Taiwan can expect retaliation amounting to annihilation. This list includes proclamation of independence, foreign intervention and, more ominously, protracted delays in progress toward reunification with the mainland...
...Bush do to McCain to engender such bitterness? Attack ads? Everyone uses attack ads. Unfair spin? Politics always has been dirty, and no politicians can take these things personally without exploding. Sure, Bush ran a dirty campaign, but at the risk of sounding subjective, what else do you expect from a spoiled, dumb, rich, arrogant, sneering frat boy? Not that he'd be a bad president, so long as his advisors keep him from doing and/or touching anything...
...College basketball players run about 6'3, which of course is way too small in a sport dominated by mini-Goliaths. They make up for this by having "mad ups", which means they can jump really high. But don't expect to hear Billy Packer of CBS Sports using this slang on TV: he's busy telling his female co-workers to "go find a WNBA game...
...individuals - even if they choose no cause at all. It's easy to see how the Court believed the free flow of ideas that colleges aim to promote would best be served by making the fee mandatory. After all, if you gave a college kid $300 bucks, would you expect it to go to the Sierra Club? In delivering the majority opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote, "It is inevitable that government will adopt and pursue programs and policies within its constitutional powers but which nonetheless are contrary to the profound beliefs and sincere convictions of some of its citizens...
However, we should not expect the U.S. economy to make a transition to higher gas prices instantaneously. For the short term, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson is planning to visit OPEC nations before their March 27 conference, and the U.S. should not hesitate to pressure the cartel to restore normal levels of production...