There were nine in all, a mixed, inharmonious assembly, from which no experienced investigator could expect great results.

Evidently the black-garbed investigator had been expecting some action such as this.

State Department officials say the problem may simply be that the Congressional investigators expect too much.

He said that investigators do not expect to learn the signal's color until late this week.

A spokesman for the district attorney's office would not comment, except to say that investigators expected to make related civilian arrests last night.

"But a good investigator must always expect set- backs."

It is the kind of crime that investigators expect to be able to solve only after weeks of painstaking effort, if at all.

The investigators expect that other, as yet undiscovered genes, will explain why the others quickly deteriorated.

Merck and investigators expect results soon from trials in more than 38,000 people older than 60.

He concludes that because five murders occurred during the earlier sprees, the investigators should expect two more.