Northwest, for instance, long expecting a strike, made elaborate contingency plans that were helped by the restructuring the industry had undergone.
We had long been expecting a leadership shakeup at Research in Motion.
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Bank analysts have long been expecting some cross-border bank mergers in Europe.
Ford Motor surprised investors this morning who had long been expecting current CEO Alan Mulally to step aside, announcing that he would remain in the top job until at least 2014.
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Mr. Long is also expecting those crowds to be on their best behavior.
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But somehow, I'm not expecting long queues outside my local.
Moreover, most Argentines have long given up expecting exemplary behaviour from public figures, argues Silvina Walger, a writer who has chronicled the political excesses of the 1990s under ex-President Carlos Menem.
Old Trafford is a football pitch, so the grass is shorter and with the game kicking off at 1800 BST, the surface will be slippier, so I'm not expecting many long-range tries.
Philadelphia must be expecting a very long maturing process before bringing him into the fold.
They long ago passed the stage of expecting adults to deliver them from the streets.
But that's no comfort if you're a boomer who spent your early years jumping from job to job, accruing few pension benefits, and then settled into a long-term corporate job, expecting you'd finally get yours--only to find the rules were being changed midgame.
You got whiplash if you were expecting the status quo of the long 1970s to continue.
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"I was kind of expecting a destination proposal for a long time, " says Rachel.
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Expecting that they may not last long in the job, would-be CEOs are going to ask for the highest possible initial salary.
Expecting LUV to achieve such high, long-term growth is risky business.
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Before long, Eduige and Rodelinda arrive at the prison, expecting to find Unulfo leading Bertarido to freedom.
Many analysts had been expecting the drug to help Merck win a long-standing duel for the arthritis market with rival Pharmacia , which makes similar drugs.
Many Fed watcher are expecting the committee to announce the purchase of long-term Treasury notes in order to keep interest rates down and stoke economic growth.
"Expecting disabled people and their families to travel long distances just to gain access to the clinical care they need is very disappointing and simply unfair, " he said.
The other is that with longer-term Treasuries now moving closer to the low level of money market rates, the marketplace is expecting low rates to be here for a long time.
Plaid's Dafydd Elis Thomas is staying away, defying his party's three line whip, sharing "full and frank exchanges" with his group and expecting the sanctions and the trouble that has been a long time coming.
Long lines of cars wait in front of petrol stations rumoured to be expecting a delivery.
It would be nice, but they are far more concerned about the long term health of the company than the short term results analysts are expecting.
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Wherever the debate ends up, you can see why people in the City would be expecting the cheap money era to continue in the UK for a long time to come.
With general economic conditions improving in the U.S. and Europe, and prices rising, the market is expecting increases in short term rates and is already seeing increases in long term rates.
Pfizer said that its Lyrica, a follow-up to the blockbuster epilepsy and nerve pain drug Neurontin, has been associated with a few cases of muscle weakness, but that the company is still expecting U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for the long-delayed drug.
"We're expecting to be a day-to-day and hopefully not too long of a situation, " Farrell said.
The Irish champion jockey had been expecting to spend the first day of the Festival eating further into Sir Gordon Richards' long-standing record of 269 winners in a season.
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