The ease in prices stemmed from new government data showing supply, while tight, isn't stretched as thin as initially expected.

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However, Denmark recently downgraded by 50% its initial 2020 goal for electric cars, from 400, 000 to 200, 000, so this resource may not prove to be as significant as initially expected.

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Ms. Gates, a regular train rider, initially expected the service to work as smoothly as Wi-Fi on JetBlue or Virgin America airlines, but she has given up on it and bought a wireless card from Sprint.

ECONOMIST: Business travel

The negotiations in Havana are expected to focus initially on the issue of land reform in Colombia, as it was a major reason for the uprising that brought about the establishment of the Farc (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) in the early 1960s.

BBC: Ivan Marquez (left) and fellow Farc negotiator. File photo

Djourou was initially expected to miss the rest of the season but his shoulder complaint is not as bad as first feared and he could start after three games out.

BBC: Wojciech Szczesny

According to the report, hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending for Medicare and Medicaid are being removed from government projections as federal healthcare spending is now expected to be full 15 percent less than what had been initially budgeted for 2012.

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