After an anxious, phone-buzzing-filled offsite meeting, Serres is caught off-guard by the influx of interest and tells his assistant, Sam Burkett, to clear appointments for the week and schedule investor meetings.
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Either Apple is really caught off guard by the demand for the iPad, or it has some supply chain issues.
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That is just the way our tax code works and the last thing you want is to be caught off guard when it happens.
Unfortunately, Brown is not the only tenant caught off guard.
The economy is, and has been, in recovery for at least two years now, so being caught off guard by such data is unlikely.
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The moment of transition, with the side losing the ball caught off-guard, is the point when space is most easily found.
This is an aka mamba, a moonfish, caught off the coast not far from Tokyo.
But then, it is in the nature of investors to be caught off-guard.
What caught me by surprise after we moved is that I felt cut off from the book business.
In the women's draw, Serena Williams meets Stefanie Voegele in the first round but it is her potential last eight face-off against Henin that has caught the eye.
Many banks were caught up in the Madoff scam, but JP Morgan Chase is still fighting off allegations it should have investigated its many suspicions of Madoff.
Brad Haddin took over from regular Australia wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist, who is taking time off for family reasons, and opened the batting but was caught in the deep of Nehra for five.
But book sales of all sorts are dropping off, and, for the most part, online is not making up the difference, particularly if the publisher happened to be caught off guard when the tide changed.
No one knows how many folks pulled off this ruse, but it is safe to say that most were never caught.
We can be caught off guard when an aging parent first begins to show signs that something is wrong and that changes are needed.
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Foreign forces have frequently caught pirates off Somalia, disarmed them and then put them back to sea because there is no local authority to deal with them.
Just 6 weeks after the Costa Concordia ran aground off Italy, another one of their cruise ships, the Costa Allegra has caught fire and is now adrift two hundred miles southwest of the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean.
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