The problem is that the media loves to herald the comparatively rare super growth companies, thereby giving the impression that this is normal and even expected for businesses.
Worse, she sets an expectation through the behavior she models at the top that it is desirable and perhaps even expected that women not be away very long after the birth of a child.
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Still, the app situation was largely expected, and maybe even better than expected.
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By the time home DSL and cable modems became more widely adopted, Cyber Monday already was an institution embraced by retailers and accompanied by discounts and promotions that consumers expected and even demanded.
Research In Motion ( RIMM) dazzled Wall Street with strong, better-than-expected earnings and even a better-than-expected gross margin.
The banks and brokerage houses are now so big that quality control is less reliable and sometimes even less expected.
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HD-DVD, and even it is expected to adopt Blu-ray in addition.
Ray Boulger, of mortgage brokers John Charcol, said he did not expect to see an increase in interest rates until next year and even then, expected them to "only rise slowly".
It has proved extremely controversial, and a recent report found that it was not saving as much money as expected and may even end up costing the NHS more than if it paid for the hospital in the first place.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, a rich country think-tank, isn't expecting a Japanese recovery to start until next year and even then it is expected to be very sluggish.
He appointed three of the commission's five members, and has always boasted in the past that he expected his appointees (and even the state legislature) to reflect his wishes.
For most Americans, financial pressures are not likely to go away anytime soon, and they may even get worse when you consider expected increases in taxes and inflation.
The company sold more iPhones, more iPads, more Macs and even more iPods than anyone expected.
Faster house-price inflation will mean more consumer spending than expected, and even faster growth.
Grasso so far has been ordered to repay just a part of his pay package and is expected to appeal even that.
Some migration of apparel manufacturing from China is expected, and even encouraged by the government, as the country's economy matures.
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Store employees are sworn to secrecy, attending training sessions for the even and black curtains are expected to unveil something wonderful.
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Some supporting evidence for this inflection manifested late in third quarter 2009 and is expected to be even more pronounced in the current fourth quarter.
Then, I'll travel to Santiago, Chile, a country with an economy estimated to have grown by more than 5% last year, and expected to grow even faster this year.
In order to get value out of big data, business analysts cannot simply be presented with a programming language like Java (or even MapReduce) and be expected to start charging forward.
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As expected, an impressive array of prominent sports franchise owners, distinguished baseball executives, titans of business, and even former ball players are expected to aggressively pursue a franchise whose origins date back to the late nineteenth century and well before Brooklyn was even a borough of New York City.
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While the number of courses has quietly tripled in the last decade to over 600, golf is still very much a minority sport and even though significant growth is expected with the expansion of a middle class predicted to have doubled its 2010 level of 52 million by 2015, the sport is still eye-wateringly expensive.
As the years went on, Jack felt some pressure to put in more hours, and saw some years where he got an evaluation that was less than he expected, and sometimes he even had to go twenty-four months without a raise.
Imagine all the rules of Dodd-Frank were revealed and are even more stifling than we expected.
Nearby counties and boroughs such as Sussex, Eastbourne, Northamptonshire and even cities like Manchester are also expected to close down streets for parties.
China has become the world's biggest internet market and it is expected to grow even further in the coming years as more people get access to the internet.
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The writeup at the Economic Policy Institute noted above says Novy-Marx averages the returns of stocks and bonds when he should assume that higher-yielding stocks will become a larger proportion of the fund over time and increase the expected return, even if fund managers rebalance periodically.
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Siri drove iPhone 4S sales even when consumers were expected and wanted a new form factor.
The bowling-related injury sets Andrew Bynum back even further than expected, and leaves the 76ers without their potential franchise player.
And even the pro-business BJP is expected to tread softly around the perennially contentious issue of opening up the country's retail sector to foreign investments.
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