Word: expectant
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...long ago, few Rosemont students were considered college material. Reared in downtown Baltimore's roughest ZIP code, almost all of them live in poverty. The lucky ones could expect to take classes someday at a community college, but nearly two-thirds of students in this troubled district don't make it through high school. On standardized tests conducted three years ago, not a single Rosemont student read at grade level...
...Unsurprisingly, Bill Clinton has already found a way to walk this political tightrope: he left it up to the Census Bureau to decide in 2000 whether or not sampling would improve the accuracy of the final tally. With the differences expected to be marginal and the Republicans already happy with what the 2000 numbers can do for them, expect Bush to be similarly hands-off when decision time comes in February...
...advisers gave notice that a Bush administration would be happy to escalate U.S. support for a military effort to end guerrilla control over those territories ceded by Andres Pastrana's government. But expanding U.S. involvement there may run counter to the stay-at-home instincts of the Pentagon. Expect an increasing number of articles containing the words Colombia and Vietnam...
...meantime. A growing chorus of economists think Greenspan's last half-point hike in May was overkill, and that the slowdown is indeed happening too fast. The markets are demanding a full point of interest rate cuts from the Fed chairman in the next six months, and many expect him to begin with a surprise, pre-FOMC-meeting cut in the next few weeks, coming perhaps as soon as the next unemployment figures, due out in early January. That would only help Bush set a properly gloomy mood...
...more moderate the Cabinet became last week, the more sense it made to mollify conservatives in one fell swoop. Democrats will concentrate their fire on the Missouri Republican, whose almost-pure brand of conservatism guarantees a sea change at the Department of Justice. But barring a surprise, even Democrats expect Ashcroft will be confirmed...