"I found that surprising as I would have expected the chief executive of a public company to be aware whether or not his employment contract had the needed shareholder approval".

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Of course, I could be wrong, but even as predictions along the way have not been as robust as I would have liked the fundamentals continue to build in the expected direction.

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As an attorney, I would have expected more from you.

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How could I have expected otherwise, as undernourished and poorly prepared for the winter as I was?

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As we left Fenway I expected Brendan to let me have it, with I told you so's and all sorts of juvenile crowing.

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And I had one standing by for the unsuspecting Karan, but perhaps I should have expected the generosity that pervades all aspects of Indian culture because I ended up as the proud recipient.

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And as I have previously noted in this column, companies that pay dividends (especially those that are expected to sustain reasonable growth prospects) will have access to a pool of investors that we expect will grow the fastest of any segment in the coming years, the shell shocked Baby Boomers.

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Many of us have wound up in places we never expected or wanted to be, emotionally as well as physically, I suppose.

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Of course, I should have expected nothing less from a Himalayan Kingdom that has set aside 60% of its land as protected nature reserves.

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