If you have a better policy of asset-shedding for it, then you should expect to gain quick consensus among investors.

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With large manufacturers like Samsung and Sony now making a play for the space (not to mention Apple and Google, which have both been trying to gain a toehold in the field), expect the war for the living room to heat up this year.

FORBES: Converging screens

In most other parts of the world, women are still raising their boys to expect the old-style contract in which, in return for bread-winning, they gain a support structure that keeps their children (and much else) at arm's length.

ECONOMIST: Working fathers

Analysts and professionals in the field expect that the strongest domestic firms will gain from intensifying competition in the markets and become attractive targets for multinational companies looking to expand in emerging channels in China and worldwide.

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Sceptics can expect to win popular support for the view that freer trade is harmful, but could never hope to gain broad backing for the idea that, so far as possible, technological progress should be brought to a halt.

ECONOMIST: Profits over people