Cracks in that strategy began to show earlier this year when profits didn't meet expectations.
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When revenue invariably doesn't meet expectations, maybe Mr. Dayton can require a GPS locator for grandma's cellphone.
The news isn't expected to be great and it could cause some short-term indigestion if profits don't top expectations.
Other city leaders said the mayor's accomplishments far outweighed his mistakes, even if his third term didn't meet expectations.
On several occasions, H-P said the unit didn't meet expectations.
During the all-hands New York meeting, Mr. Boatman said the company was going through a challenging period and some of its mobile games weren't meeting expectations, this employee said.
When demand for the plant's batteries didn't meet expectations, the company filled orders with cells made at a factory in South Korea, leaving the Michigan plant largely idle, according to the report by the Department of Energy's Inspector General, Gregory Friedman.
With a U.S. growth forecast of just 2.5% for 2011, Caterpillar doesn't have high expectations.
"I didn't have any expectations coming into this tournament because I've never played that well in Miami, " the Romanian 28th seed said.
"I didn't have high expectations coming here but I wanted to get some matches and get used to the clay surface and the whole mindset of playing on clay, " said Hewitt.
"If you read what they say, they always say, if there's a problem and things aren't going to expectations, we'll make adjustments, " said Hank Gehman, a longtime season-ticket holder and retired contractor.
Though the federation has mentored a child who went on to become a veterinarian and another who is a New York mounted police officer, Stokes said he doesn't have unrealistic expectations of the children, because the primary goal is to keep them safe.
"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.
If the funds didn't live up to expectations, those gratuities were taken away, Galvin said.
"It's difficult for consumers to act in their own interest if the law doesn't meet their basic expectations, " Mr. Strickling said.
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Team owner Woody Johnson has a history of demanding personnel changes, with coaches and players, when the team doesn't perform to its expectations.
If any club is going to break that spell, expect it to come from Florida, a seemingly natural baseball market that hasn't lived up to expectations.
But I think I would not -- I don't want to raise expectations that this is a meeting that will lead to an imminent, concrete decision about some action.
Not to mention the fact that Gartner doesn't have such high expectations for QNX's tablet market share, nor RIM's long-term smartphone position -- and IDC indicates much of the same.
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Many magazine editors, modelling agents and casting directors say they want to use more diverse models, but can't because of industry expectations - with each blaming the other group for setting the tone.
While the dieters lost about 1 pound on average, none of them maintained the diet after the two weeks was up because they didn't meet their unrealistic expectations of losing 5 to 10 pounds.
"The range trading seen in both the stock and bond markets recently shows that investors don't have any clear expectations for the central bank's future monetary-policy direction, " said Yang Delong, a fund manager at China Southern Fund Co.
The goodwill impairment charge, or lowered book value of an asset, arose after the Advanced Micro Devices conducted an analysis of the businesses and determined that they weren't performing to its expectations, making it the second ATI-related write-down that the chipmaker has had to stomach since buying the company in July 2006.
Despite strong sales and earnings growth, Apple shares are down 18.9% this year, thanks largely to a dip in January after Jobs introduced the MacBook Air, a slick, ultra-light laptop that couldn't live up the expectations set by the previous year's introduction of the iPhone (to be fair, how could anything live up to that?).
The goodwill impairment charge, or lowered book value of an asset, arose after the Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ) conducted an analysis of the businesses and determined that they weren't performing to its expectations, making it the second ATI-related write-down that the chipmaker has had to stomach since buying the company in July 2006.
The coaches have shown that if anyone doesn't come up to their expectations they're out of the following game.
Since it's the follow-up to 1999's The Phantom Menace, expectations aren't as high as they were the last time around.
"I won't do things because of expectations of others, " she says.
Nearly a third of all CEOs who were fired last year left because they didn't live up to the expectations of increasingly demanding--and impatient--shareholders and boards.
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