In Serbia, the thought of Slobodan Milosevic with eight more years in power makes the eyebrows twitch.
Though the Hindu nationalist party was expected to lose in both the Delhi region and Rajasthan, where it was in power, nobody thought it would fare as poorly as it did.
Governments, you would have thought, would be doing everything in their power to promote the spread of mobile phones.
For the rest of us it would restore the purchasing power we thought we'd earned in the first place.
Robert Guei still commanded the loyalty of some sections of the army, particularly those recruited during his period in power - some of whom were thought by journalists in Abidjan to be involved in Thursday's fighting.
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This could be a pretty robust process, given the kicking given to the bill in the Second Reading Debate on 7 June, when some peers clearly thought the bill didn't go far enough in promoting local power while others feared a massive infringement over property rights.
"I immediately thought about trying to recruit the best players in the city and making a power, " he says.
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People who thought that art had lost its power to shock must be rubbing their eyes in disbelief.
The Progressives who designed the city's quirky charter, back in 1925, thought the best way to prevent corruption was to hand as much power as possible to councillors, civil servants and local bigwigs: anybody but the mayor.
When Ressano Garcia opened, Aggreko was thought to have been the first private firm to supply power cross-border to utilities in southern Africa.
On a webinar last week someone asked me how I thought the Japanese tsunami would affect the future of nuclear power around the world, and in the U.S. in particular.
In countries where political power is divided and constrained like America, it is often thought that such outcomes are determined by other factors such as market forces.
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