Word: expect
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While retail sales, professional services and manufacturing industries expect the largest growth, a need for engineers and computer science majors persists. Employment of communications, telecommunications and business majors is also expected to increase...
...expect any Senators to change their party stripes for a committee chairmanship from the enemy. Democrats have already quietly sniffed for defectors but have found no prospects. The only opportunity for a tilt in their direction would be if the Senate's two oldest Republicans, who are in poor health--South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, 97, and North Carolina's Jesse Helms, 79--suddenly left and the Democratic Governors of their states picked replacements...
...Since it was cobbled together from the ruins of the freight railroads' dying passenger business in 1971, Amtrak has chugged through $23 billion in federal funds and been plagued by an entrenched bureaucracy, pork-barrel politics, high labor costs and stagnant ridership--all the things, in short, you might expect from a state-run monopoly...
...machines imprecise, they are also fantastically expensive and hard to come by. A start-up company that wants to manufacture parts for a new product may have to wait two years for a press to be built and delivered. Not exactly the quick turnaround time we've come to expect in the age of silicon...
...robots have fewer opportunities than babies to learn from their environment. Humans spend a great deal of time talking to and nurturing young people. Robots do not get that kind of attention and outside stimulation. "We don't learn in impoverished educational environments, but that's what we expect the robot to do," she says. Breazeal has tried to provide Kismet with the tools to engage in this kind of socially situated learning...