In July, ABN Amro analyst Tim Coan downgraded the stock because he expected pricing pressures to keep the cancer drug from contributing as much growth as expected.
Precise surveys of badger numbers in the pilot zones in Gloucestershire and Somerset revealed about twice as many badgers as expected.
In late 2012, Better Place said it hadn't sold as many cars as expected and said it would seek an additional investor.
McMoRan's early successful wells did not produce as much gas as expected to generate sufficient cash flow to keep the drilling program moving along, so management needed to try something different.
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 country's current foreign-exchange system, which involves a fixed "official" exchange rate that makes the currency, the kyat, more than 100 times as valuable against the dollar as the black-market rate, is so confusing that many foreign companies have refused to re-enter the country even if Western leaders ease sanctions against Myanmar, the country also known as Burma, as expected later this year.
Due to the December surge, trade numbers were not nearly as bad as analysts had expected as late as the middle of last week.
Games may be a problem, as high-end gaming is most likely to exploit ARM architecture hardware extensions, and as such not perform as expected on x86 processors.
Both talks and the issue of Iran were not as prominent among factors as expected by many observers.
It may yet turn out that way, but so far, it has not been nearly as easy or straight forward as expected.
Audi led every lap as the diesel cars, as expected, enjoyed greater fuel economy but also proved quicker than their petrol-powered rivals.
Employers added half as many jobs in May as expected, and rosier reports of job additions from earlier months were revised down.
The NEX-C3 is rumored to include the same 16.2 megapixel image sensor used in the Sony Alpha A55 DSLR, as well as HD video capture (as expected) and the new flash seen in the image above.
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While companies of many oil-producing nations are pumping cash into the declining oilfields of the North Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere, those projects haven't contributed as much crude as analysts expected.
"I'm not sure it's proven to be as robust as expected or as consumer-friendly as we had hoped, " Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger said during a recent earnings call with analysts.
The news of tighter supply comes as analysts forecast a rebound in automotive sales, which is expected in 2013 as the global economy is expected to rise.
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And, with a relatively low level of borrowings, the Chinese government has the ability to use fiscal stimulus as well if consumer spending does not develop as expected.
With major automakers announcing their Chinese sales for November, deliveries of Japanese automakers such as Toyota Motors and Honda Motors were down as expected, but the rate of decline was less than what many had predicted.
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And when companies finally began deploying their first wave energy generators in Europe, punishing ocean conditions took their toll as some devices broke down or failed to perform as expected.
Brian Cowen was, as expected, elected unopposed as Fianna Fail's new leader.
Analysts also suggested improved sentiment if the eurozone debt crisis shows signs of stabilizing, such as if Spain asks for a financial bailout later this month, as expected.
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But this study of patients recruited decades ago in Reykjavik, Iceland--many of whom had died of heart attacks--showed that high levels of CRP did not confer as great an increase in risk as many expected.
As such, I would guess that later today the update will proceed as expected.
So, as convincing as they seem at the time, big-picture predictions rarely work out as expected.
As important, he establishes that the boost to trade did not occur, as expected, by lowering the transaction costs for trade within the euro area.
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Growth hasn't been as robust this year as many had expected, with a projected 2006 expansion of only around 2%.
About 20 more who received high doses of radiation died of various causes in the following years, and as many as 4, 000 cancer deaths are expected as a result of the disaster, according to those U.N. agencies.
The Obama administration has (it appears) chosen not to intervene militarily, as America would be expected to do even as part of a so-called international force.
Yes, the boom was big in percentage terms but not as big in absolute terms as I had expected.
Their hopes that genomic information and other new tools would dramatically improve drug making are justified, but certainly not as fast or as cheaply as they once expected.
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