Less expected was that they would do so at the expense of their own members.
But the countries with the most leaders waiting in the wings is less expected.
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So have smaller and less expected outfits, including Adobe and companies leveraging predictive open source software.
The banks and brokerage houses are now so big that quality control is less reliable and sometimes even less expected.
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Less expected was her turn at the drum kit, joyfully wielding mallets.
The less expected success of the TIMSS and PIRLS rankings will be the high performance of Russia, which has a place in all their top 10s.
Williams has become a behind-the-scenes mastermind, producing, writing and appearing on hits for rap royals like Jay-Z and Snoop Dogg and less expected acts, such as Britney Spears and garage band the Hives.
The bullish consideration relates to expectations, which is what our modern earnings-season culture is all about as we often bid up the prices of shares of bad companies whose performance is a bit less bad than previously expected while we dump shares of great companies whose performance turns out a little less magnificent than expected.
Housing starts in Canada did come in about 4K less than expected at 189K. While on the surface this may seem like less than positive news, the fact that the previous report was revised upward by 6K easily offset any ill effects of the expectations miss.
The entire spacewalk took 5 hours and 30 minutes -- an hour less than expected.
The economy grew much less than expected in the second quarter, new Labor Department estimates show.
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The company also announced yesterday that third quarter profits rose less than expected because demand for home loans slumped.
Revenue is growing at a nearly 90% annual clip, and the red ink is a bit less than expected.
So, even though less than expected job growth occurred in March, at least more folks are working now, right?
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Meanwhile, the German economy contracted less than expected in the fourth quarter, mainly due to higher investment in construction.
And so if the company goes bankrupt, then there could be a disaster where the retirees get much less than expected.
Several commentators said the markets might be setting themselves up for disappointment if action from the ECB is less than expected.
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Costco Wholesale fell 39 cents, or 0.4%, to 88.65, after the wholesale club operator said March same-store sales rose less than expected.
Germany, the largest EU economy, slowed less than expected, GDP sliding 0.2%.
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Earlier, FedEx also warned that its profits would be less than expected.
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Many analysts said the PMI reading tends to improve in September for seasonal reasons, however the improvement was less than expected this year.
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Core U.S. consumer prices (discounting energy and food) rose a less than expected 0.1% in July, but the core inflation rate was 2.4%.
Sales to retailers were off 1% in the U.S., helping keep worldwide sales growth to just 1.8% over the prior year, less than expected.
If they amass front-end tax liabilities, because they have such a short window to earn big cash, they end up with less than expected.
The United States economy grew less than expected in the second quarter, but Wall Street was more concerned by last week's jump in unemployment.
In addition, the U.S. economy does not appear to be accelerating to the downside, with new jobless claims for April coming in less than expected.
That was slightly less than expected, with most analysts expecting 7.7%.
On the economic front, Existing home sales rose by a less than expected 2.3 percent in July, to an annual rate of 4.47 million units.
In the current semiconductor upturn, as all firms rebound, the difference between the two will be less than expected, meaning that the stock should do well.
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