Buckle reported comparative sales up 10.8%, Gap beat expectations with a 1% increase and Limited Brands reported a 12% increase in sales for June.
One other gap between expectations and reality: Despite numerous studies showing that there is a high demand for graduates with engineering and computer science degrees, new grads most want to work in education, media and entertainment, and healthcare.
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Yet it is a widening gap between your expectations and what you actually have which predicts unhappiness.
This gap between government expectations and IOC risk appetite is only to get wider from hereon in.
Yet there are still days when I'm exhausted by negotiating the gap between my expectations of what's possible and the reality.
The gap between people's expectations and the ability of the political system to meet them is wide.
Friedman reported his results had missed analyst expectations by 10 cents, a shocking gap in the usually staid and predictable world of real estate securities.
It does not require a merger to plug the immediate gap between earnings and investor expectations by speeding up drug development cycles, improving stock management and launching new products simultaneously in many different markets.
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There is also a gap when it comes to salary expectations.
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But in the short term, Draghi seems confident a stop gap is possible which would help "frame expectations" in the markets.
It's possible that feature phone users may have lower expectations for download speeds, but this is a significant gap in relative user satisfaction.
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And that slide is directly, I think, connected to the PR campaign the administration has waged from the beginning that has created unrealistic expectations and has created what used to be called a credibility gap.
They consider inflation's principal determinants to be the gap between aggregate supply and demand and the public's expectations.
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Among retailers, Target (TGT) and Gap (GPS) both reported April same-store sales which fell short of expectations, sending shares lower today.
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