You got whiplash if you were expecting the status quo of the long 1970s to continue.
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Mr. MCNAMARA: If you were expecting this holiday season to reaccelerate growth in consumer spending, that did not happen.
If you were expecting that same kind of unbridled enthusiasm Crazy Eddie once used to hawk underpriced TVs, you may be either pleased or disappointed.
Then you check your results (looking for deviations between what you were expecting and what actually happened) and finally, if necessary, you alter and improve the process.
The last thing you want to do is find yourself locked into something that is very different from what you were expecting, based on previous versions of Windows.
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Pull it out of its protective sleeve and you'll instantly worry that someone's made a mistake and sent you a netbook in place of the monster you were expecting.
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It is important to be open-minded and adaptable when conducting market analysis as some of the feedback you hear may not be exactly what you were expecting and hoping for.
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"You were probably expecting a 22-year-old MIT graduate, " Weiland said Wednesday, in his first interview since Lin-mania began.
By the end you were half expecting LaPierre to start talking about arming teachers or going all the way and letting kindergartners conceal carry.
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Were you expecting that the discounts on those Eaton Vance option-writing funds will narrow, going back to their historical average?
What Tiger were you expecting?
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If you don't mind tugging, you can definitely keep it close, but we were expecting a somewhat more elegant solution for having the canister trail the brush bar.
BLACKMAN-MATHIS: I think they were kind of expecting us to be, you know, just a group of little girls, like, complaining about something.
And speaking of no surprise, you should have been expecting the revelation that virtually none of the investors bucks were invested in Forex.
But that's no comfort if you're a boomer who spent your early years jumping from job to job, accruing few pension benefits, and then settled into a long-term corporate job, expecting you'd finally get yours--only to find the rules were being changed midgame.
If they settle in at 16, you can look forward to a 6%-plus real return--less than what people were expecting but not a ticket to the poorhouse, either.
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