• When it was done, the boy ate the whole thing, and did not share a morsel, which was exactly as it was supposed to be.

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  • Supplement guru Gary Null claims he became severely ill after ingesting his own supplement that contained 1, 000 times as much vitamin D as it was supposed to.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Meanwhile, in Washington, U.S. President Barack Obama's special representative to Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, said that the election process had worked as it was supposed to.

    CNN: Karzai rival prefers opposition to coalition

  • Each of the schemes announced over the past few days - whether for infrastructure, for housing and for "credit easing" for small businesses - in their different ways respond to the same reality: that super-loose monetary policy, for one reason or another, has not kickstarted private sector activity as it was supposed to.

    BBC: Osborne, Balls and the OECD: Where they agree

  • Obviously it is not as completely awful as it might have been but this was supposed to be a radical reform of the CAP and we are not seeing that.

    BBC: Euro MPs reject radical CAP farm subsidy reforms

  • If you simply saved money after 1971, you stood to get killed as the dollar lost value against things it was supposed to be able to procure in the future.

    FORBES: Inequality Is The Child Of Fiat Money

  • This is the way it was supposed to work: As solar panel prices fell, solar power would become more affordable, and people everywhere would cover their roofs with glittering panels.

    FORBES: Solar On Fire In California

  • In an interview last year with City and State, Mr. Katz said he agreed to dispose of a dead German Shepherd as a favor to an elderly patient and dumped the body after the clinic that was supposed to receive it was locked.

    WSJ: Who Voted Against Medical Marijuana Is Ticketed for Pot

  • It was very nice because he wanted me to do it and I got so involved in it that I did twice as many drawings as I was supposed to.

    BBC: Profile: Quentin Blake

  • For too long, America has remained undefended even as the premises of the ABM Treaty proved erroneous and the security it was supposed to provide failed to materialize.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Soviet Wyoming Formula On Start Would Kill SDI

  • President Barack Obama said Tuesday at a news conference that the U.S. counterterrorism bureaucracy "did what it was supposed to be doing" before the Boston Marathon bombing as his top intelligence official began a review into whether sensitive information was adequately shared and whether the U.S. government could have disrupted the attack.

    NPR: Uncle: Family To Claim Boston Bomb Suspect's Body

  • It was as if some space had opened up, a little rift, between words and whatever they were supposed to be doing.

    NEWYORKER: History of a Disturbance

  • It seemed like business as usual for everyone except Shirley, who felt forced to leave the job that was supposed to have been her lifetime career.

    BBC: Fingerprint evidence challenged

  • Indeed Poland was supposed to peg its currency to the Euro as a pre-condition for joining something that it (very wisely) has refrained from actually doing.

    FORBES: How Austerity Is Failing in Eastern Europe In One Chart

  • It was supposed to involve just retired Career Ambassador Thomas Pickering and me, but wound up featuring as well comments from one of the prime-movers behind the denuclearization initiative, former Reagan strategic arms negotiator Max Kampelman.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The President's new clothes

  • "It always did the actresses in, because I was the one who was supposed to have this reputation as a freedom fighter ... and I got two movies, " Lincoln told NPR's Roy Hurst in a 2003 interview.

    NPR: Remembering Jazz Singer And Activist Abbey Lincoln

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