Going into the summit, both sides appear to be deliberately lowering expectations about the outcome.
Dozens of stories have floated around the Web about the times when an e-mail to Jobs yielded a phone call from an executive support team and an outcome that far exceeded reasonable expectations.
"The anticipated final recovery of just short of 90% is an excellent outcome, particularly given the low expectations of recovery at the beginning of the process, " the spokesman says.
McCartney brilliantly opened up a legion of creative inspiration to himself and his band mates (the real ones) by removing them, and all of their personal expectations, from the outcome.
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Britain's antiquated registers could yet determine the outcome of the election if, against expectations, it turns out to be close.
This strategy has been conditioned on our expectation that the prices of oil and other commodities would ultimately stabilize, in part as the result of slowing global growth, and that this outcome, together with well-anchored inflation expectations and increased slack in resource utilization, would foster a return to price stability in the medium run.
But again, I don't want to prejudge the outcome of this, but I also want to set expectations here.
Labor and legal experts say the outcome of many employee privacy cases hinges on workers' expectations of their privacy rights -- particularly whether they have been given notice that they are subject to monitoring.
He refused to be drawn on what the final outcome would be, but he did not deny that expectations of banks such as HSBC that they'll be forced to hold what's known as core tier one capital equivalent to around 10% of risk-weighted assets are in the right ballpark - or about 3 percentage points more than the new 7% minimum for all banks.
"Expectations for tapering off of the Fed's outcome-based purchases have been pushed back due to recent softening in the economic data, " according to a statement from the private sector Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee released on Wednesday.
This, of course, opens a plethora of questions as to what, exactly, her expectations were and if she is capable of seeing the inevitable outcome.
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"It's a chance to take an early trip at a time when he doesn't have to meet a set of expectations, doesn't have to be seen as producing some kind of new outcome, " Mr. Ross said.
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