Word: expect
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...decade: he was looked upon as a moral giant who fought and lost to an abusive, undemocratic regime and the greedy, unaccountable spectre of one of the world's largest oil companies. His final statement to those about to hang him reflected the dignity and disgust that one would expect from a modern day martyr: "Appalled by the denigrating poverty of my people who live on a richly endowed land…I have devoted… my very life, to a cause in which I have total belief and from which I cannot be blackmailed or intimidated....Nor imprisonment...
...like crowds. Don't send him to a county fair; he doesn't like shaking hands. And no one wants a repeat of the "polka incident," when a woman at a Polish festival grabbed a grimacing Cheney for a dance. He'll go to fund-raisers, but don't expect any schmoozing. Last Wednesday night at the Senate's annual dinner for major donors, he sat with lobbyists at a table guarded by the Secret Service and then slipped away without slapping one back. At a Labor Day parade in Illinois, as George W. Bush careened from side to side...
...come to Wong Kei in a party of more than one, expect a hassle. If there's no room for you and they don't want you cluttering up their waiting area, they'll force you to sit on two different floors in the restaurant. Boston seems to be catching on to the trend. Pizzeria Regina in the North End and the Lowell House Dining Hall continue to see their popularity skyrocket even though they batter and bruise their customers into submission. What's with all the culinary S&M? Even I can't muster up a hypothesis to explain...
...half the class will go through recruiting. Invariably, many of the same students who spent their undergraduate years deriding "selling out" will end up at McKinsey next fall. Consulting or investment banking are safe ways to put off a career decision for a while, too; most firms don't expect their associates to stay for more than two years anyway...
...debates are going to be crucial," the pollster Crockett says. "We do expect Gore to score well, and how much that reflects in the polls will remain to be seen. You don't really know how things are taken by the average American, and sometimes its something that you just can't predict...