Word: expectedly
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...weapon the United Nations should ever have to apply against a nation that is not actively engaged in a shooting war. The idea that the past four months of embargo had no effect is naive at best and deliberately misleading at worst. Even a completely secure operation could not expect to substantially undermine Iraq's ability to function so soon...
Support of this kind from the five permanent members of the council as they stand today is unheard of. Such unprecedented global support for a military invasion surely suggests at least one other thing: that President Bush can now expect extraordinary cooperation in an economic blockade that would rival the greatest castle siege...
Montrachet, a white wine produced by the French vintner Domaine de la Romanee- Conti, features a penetrating yet silky fragrance, a rich and robust fruit -- and a price tag that will knock your socks off. For $500 a bottle, oenophiles who purchase the world-famous Chardonnay expect to enjoy one of the world's great wines. Now it seems that some of them would have been better off with a bottle of Chateau Toledo. Attracted by the bouquet of easy profit, wine counterfeiters have produced bogus bottles of DRC Montrachet, which have turned up in California and as far away...
Above all, Britons can expect some relief from the hated poll tax, a local levy instituted by Thatcher to replace the property tax. It is a flat tax on everyone in a local community, regardless of each person's income; the amount is decided by the local community, based on its financial needs. Thatcher fervently believed the old tax should be dumped because it affected only property owners, but the new assessment exacted the same amount from rich and poor alike. Nothing except perhaps Thatcher's personality provoked so much anti-Conservative sentiment among voters. The poor were as angry...
...major danger is that falling living standards, large-scale unemployment and political rivalries will produce the kind of aggressive nationalism that has caused the region so much grief in the past. People are all too ready to blame others for their problems. When Havel suggested that Czechoslovakia could not expect open borders with the rest of Europe if it kept its own frontier with Poland closed, he found no echo among his countrymen. A survey by the Public Opinion Research Institute disclosed that while more than 81% of those polled supported Havel generally, only 4% agreed with...