"In this political environment we shouldn't expect a lot of movement, " Geer said of polling figures.

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The key message is that we shouldn't expect any great shakes from the video conferencing side of the business.

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And we shouldn't expect some binary moment, a pass-fail grade where, you know, the whole war, yes or no, is decided.

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We shouldn't expect oil spills to be part of modern reality.

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While that's not exactly been the case with Apple and a video-enabled iPod, the company's derision of portable video has certainly signaled that we shouldn't expect such a device before, say, the next major Earth-smashing asteroid threat.

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Perry says he's sitting on about 20 high profile titles right now, but won't launch all of them at once, and that we shouldn't necessarily expect them to all be games.

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We shouldn't really expect to see hundreds of local Meetups for a presidential candidate at this point in the process, for three reasons.

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