If so, Bezos can get back to doing what he does best: surprising us.
Though such events seem to spring from nowhere, as if the cortex is surprising us with a breakthrough, scientists have begun studying how they occur.
"It is surprising for us but he told us after reaching Pakistan that he wanted to rest his legs and skip the camp and the tournament, " Nazar said.
The most surprising aspect for us was how much we have enjoyed our six dinner companions in a traditional, 6:00 or 8:00 pm fixed-seating arrangement.
The stock market is now mesmerized by the surprising health of the US recovery, from car sales to house market.
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We interviewed a half dozen job seekers who landed positions in the last few months, and they told us some surprising things.
Video games influencing the way the military operates may seem surprising, but the US military has been utilizing this rather unique skillset for years.
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But I don't think that it tells us anything surprising in the sense that we know we have to take action to address our fiscal challenges in a balanced way.
"It wouldn't be surprising if you called us back in a year from now, or a year-and-a-half from now, and suddenly, there's a whole lot more rock acts on our charts, because everything is cyclical, " said Keith Caulfield, Billboard's associate director of charts.
Reprinted from DRIVE: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H.
The idea that people can hold hugely responsible positions in them without any kind of formal training seems to a number of us as quite surprising.
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Daniel Pink, the author of Drive: the Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, says that the three secrets to satisfaction are autonomy, mastery, and purpose.
But this amazing video from Dan Pink, The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us, suggests that Google is misdiagnosing the problem--and probably wasting a lot of shareholder money as well.
Surprising many ( govtrack.us gave it a 1% chance of passing as a separate bill), the parity between the exclusion from income for employer-provided mass transit and parking benefits was extended.
As Daniel Pink has so compellingly argued in Drive: the Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, once the issue of compensation is off the table, more money does not cause us to work harder, longer or more efficiently.
The Israeli Left's failure to recognize what is happening in the US today is not surprising.
But more surprising than his moves is the US response to his moves.
Facebook and Twitter had explosive growth not because they did what people asked them to, but because they offered many of us a series of surprising and rewarding moments.
Software that gives us advice is nothing surprising.
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Even those of us in China find it surprising that the top beer in China is Snow beer .
To me, the alternative energy story had at its roots surprising similarities to the fervor in the US around Japan before its housing bubble popped.
One finding which was not surprising was the fact that 81% of US respondents indicated posts from their friends directly influenced their purchase decision.
"No other factor is involved which for those of us working in the field is very surprising, " said Dr Stefansson.
It is therefore not surprising that the consensus still seems to be that the US is the best place to invest.
When pressed to say whether more quantitative easing would have the desired effect, the incoming governor said, matter-of-factly, that Bank of Canada research had concluded the policy was having diminishing returns, especially in the US. He added this was "not surprising".
He and I have had interacted in a whole range of international forums, and not surprisingly, he has proven to be an outstanding partner for us on the international stage -- not surprising because Singapore and the United States have historically had an extraordinary relationship.
What is so surprising to me about what the the Global 1000 are telling us, however, is what they are not doing.
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According to Strategy Analytics' just-published study from the fall, it's Apple's iCloud and iTunes Match that are top dogs in the US at a combined 27 percent of usage -- a not entirely surprising lead when Apple has pushed hard on iCloud's media syncing since iOS 5, and has large swaths of market share in MP3 players and tablets, not just smartphones.
In that light, the fact that individual restaurants keep tabs on us (and whether or not we pay our tabs) is not all that surprising.
The link between the search for extraterrestrial life and our Earth-based problems is not surprising, because fundamentally it is all the same thing -- understanding how life, whether us or microbes, can be sustained in the cosmos.
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