One man's trash is another's treasure, though, and the rocky economic environment drove Weinswig to upgrade Family Dollar Stores to buy, a reflection of her expectation that dollar stores will be enticing to consumers looking to stretch a budget.

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It seems quaint that on the day Monica was handed over by Tripp to Starr's deputies, she could turn to her mother with the expectation that whatever she said, Mom wouldn't tell.

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This suggests that she could keep her party in a state of fevered expectation for months to come.

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She approached the 2001 French Open as one of the tournament favourites, but the expectation from home fans proved too much for her to bear and she suffered an embarrassing first-round loss.

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Working in her favor is the fact that she no longer harbors the expectation of the world's most populous nation on her shoulders to keep delivering results at the highest level.

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By way of a rebuff to the robotic, slavish activity of their foe, they get to prove their human handiness, not least when Santos and her new pals, defying our expectation of a gargantuan nuclear strike, end up bayonetting the enemy at close quarters, as if this were a Belgian trench in 1917.

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