The impact of the recalls was smaller than we had expected, supported by sales-promotion measures.

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With respect to TARP specifically, I think you saw stories today and you've seen stories over the last several weeks that TARP has turned out to be much cheaper than we had expected, although not cheap.

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This is expected to result in higher DVD shipment costs for Netflix than we had originally expected.

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As a result, the average subscription fee has declined slightly more than what we had originally expected.

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We can help address the issue and show them how to reduce the costs of taking the apps forward, so we show them more choice than they had expected.

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We also had reports of weaker than expected manufacturing from the New York Fed Empire State Manufacturing Survey and from the Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index.

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While we expected to see some improvement, the outlook is more promising than we had hoped: during the past year, nearly 90% or 151 of the 172 industries queried had positive sales growth.

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