But, absent such a surprise, we should get the normal V pattern.
Still the new game looks noticeably more lush and grown-up than its predecessor while retaining the formula that made the first one such a surprise hit.
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One reason the announcement came as such a surprise to students and teachers there is that Catherine Ferguson has a stellar track record, boasting 90% graduation rates and 100% college acceptance rates.
And there is a reasonable hope that such a surprise will emerge because, good though the model is, it underestimates the amount of matter in the universe by the trivial factor of 100 billion times.
That's why the happy ending for CBS ' (nyse: CBS - news - people ) freshman drama Jericho, which was gifted with a second season after the network had announced its cancellation, came as such a surprise to the cast and crew alike.
Promptly after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt created a high-powered commission, headed by Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts, to investigate how such a catastrophic surprise attack could have occurred.
"Bayern Munich is probably not such a big surprise -- it's their third final in four years -- but Borussia Dortmund getting there with a relatively young team is, " he said.
He said it was a "big surprise" that such a slick heist been possible -- but pointed the finger at organized crime.
Such a bounce would not surprise large traders who specialize in moving large volumes of shares of energy-related companies on behalf of institutional clients and their own accounts.
World Bank president James Wolfensohn said he would want to take any request to provide technical assistance to Iraq to his board before agreeing to such a step - a point of view which seemed to both surprise and dismay Mr Snow.
In such circumstances, it would be a surprise if the yen were not falling.
But students of the country's product-safety procedures say the only surprise is that such a tragedy didn't happen sooner.
Given such corporate action, it may not be a surprise that nimble Taiwan has suffered the least from the region's turmoil.
It really is no surprise that when you have such a big and diverse party there are going to be differences.
Back in the 1960s or 1980s, material news consisted of obvious headline material such as a takeover bid or a major earnings surprise.
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The existence of innovation-blocking institutions should of course not come as a surprise, but what makes such institutions prevalent and effective in some periods and not in others?
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The U.S. remains the world's most dynamic economy, so it is no surprise that it accounts for such a large share of FORBES GLOBAL's 538 billionaires this year.
Most of the risk in Brazil stems from political interference in the economy through a myriad of surprise macro measures such as taxation on investment, to monetary policy related to the foreign exchange rate.
Considering how governments are suddenly feeling that tracking your every move, or at least providing the means for someone else to, is such a brilliant idea, it's no surprise to see the Bluetooth masters at Cambridge-based CSR buy up NordNav and Cambridge Positioning Systems.
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The surprise was that he won with such a comfortable majority, almost 60%.
And when the activities on offer include face-to-face encounters with habituated west lowland gorilla families, jungle walks with local Baka (or pygmy) guides and pirogue trips downriver in search of birds and other wildlife, it is hardly a surprise that Odzala has been garnering such attention.
One Republican congressional aide who received the e-mails this week expressed surprise that a lobbying firm with such close ties to the White House would attack al-Maliki at such a pivotal time on the debate over the war, just weeks before Bush provides a progress report to the nation.
Doctors with no financial relationship to the drug's makers say the news is a welcome surprise, as no other drug has ever shown a statistically significant benefit in preventing such injuries.
Therefore, it came as a surprise to see an ancient object fetch such a huge price.
It's no surprise, except to politicians, that such a boost in this tax has dampened consumer spending.
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