Call it a curse of rising expectations created by earlier, substantial guidance hikes.
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Economic growth has to be kept high enough to accommodate all those new workers and to meet their rising expectations.
Malaysia's election tussle was closely watched around Asia, where other governments are grappling with rising expectations for more freedoms and accountability.
As during that period, the Chinese economy is under stress, with rising expectations running up against the reality of limited opportunities.
And then there's demographic change and rising spending pressures from, for instance, rising expectations of public services and from more expensive medical treatments.
To make this economic pivot requires political choices that will penalise powerful interests at a time of rising expectations among increasingly connected urbanites.
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The trend reflects rising expectations among China's workers, who are seeking out higher pay even as they show less inclination to work in factories.
After years of high growth and even faster-rising expectations, the economy now needs another big overhaul if China's fifth of humanity is to prosper.
Measures indicating that well-being stalls beyond a certain modest level of affluence take no account of rising expectations, which are a virtue in themselves.
Governments are also under pressure to meet rising expectations of service.
Many government critics, however, say Mr. Najib hasn't done enough to meet Malaysians' rising expectations for change, and he is facing a strong challenge in Mr. Anwar.
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In recent years, the game of watching the commercials which are supposedly as big as the game itself has become a bit of a letdown, the result of rising expectations.
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He undermined Mr Blair's public-service reforms, with the result that the government has failed to deliver improvements in education and the health service sharp enough to meet voters' rising expectations.
Rising expectations that the Fed will pump more money into the financial system through additional purchases of long-term bonds, such as mortgage-backed securities, helped fuel a 1.1% increase in gold prices Wednesday.
Mr Brown said he was waiting for a report by former banker Derek Wanless, which would lay out how demographic changes and rising expectations will add to health costs in the coming years.
Yet everyone involved with them, including the prime minister and his deputy, failed to communicate why the NHS needs to change in a hurry to respond to the pressures of increasing health costs, rising expectations and an ageing population.
Consumers were more apprehensive about business and employment prospects, but more optimistic about their financial prospects despite rising inflation expectations.
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But an increasingly heavy drugs bill, rising consumer expectations and doctors' resistance have combined to start sending medical costs up again by 6-8% a year.
This ratio also ranks above 84% of all those taken in the prior 52 weeks, underscoring rising bullish expectations despite weak short-term price action in RIMM shares.
To find them, I run a weekly quantitative screen that seeks out stocks with a combination of analyst upgrades and positive earnings surprises to identify rising analyst expectations, a bullish signal for stocks in any market.
The negative headlines, waiting lists and rising consumer expectations may finally be encouraging more people to go private: the number of patients covered by private medical insurance did go up by 3.4% between 1997 and 1998, mainly through corporate policies.
The rapid growth of mall culture in Asia and elsewhere reflects the rising incomes and expectations taking place across the globe.
The monthly Ifo survey of business sentiment increased to 95.8 in January from 95.1 in December, with business expectations rising markedly in German manufacturing.
The strong jobs report for March has expectations rising that the Fed will dial back its QE2 stimulus right away, and begin raising interest rates soon.
Dakin and Capucilli admit being nervous about presenting these works at the level Graham would have demanded, about rising to the expectations of audiences familiar with her choreography, and appealing to new ones.
"Prices are rising because of expectations, " Anderson said.
Even if the health budget gets 8% more in cash terms over the three years, that will still fall short of headline inflation over the three years, and probably further behind the rising cost of sustaining health care and meeting rising demand and expectations.
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