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  • According to that report, 114,000 jobs were added in July in the private sector, and that number was better than economists' expections.

    Market Swings As Traders Digest Earnings, Dim Growth Outlook 2011

  • Growth in the Philippines slowed to 3.4% in second quarter from 4.9% in the first quarter, missing expections, due to a sluggish services sector, lackluster external trade and a double-digit contraction in construction.

    Industrial Output Signals Slowdown Martin Vaughan 2011

  • Sales of $425 million met analyst expections, though 56 cents per share earnings were a penny short of expections.

    Acuity Brands Earnings Draw Dim Reaction MarketNewsVideo.com 2011

  • "This is usually due to a failure on the part of the lawyer and the customer to form a joint view of expections," Sampson said.

    Consumers warned over deregulation of legal services 2011

  • Yes, I play the same notes as James Sommerville, but the expections of playing in the BSO dwarf those of my orchestra.

    In the ballpark Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • An exploration of pop culture and sports that takes a Klostermaniacal look at expections, reality, media, and fans.

    Chuck Klosterman on Rock Chuck Klosterman 2010

  • That is a diversity not under the oppression of ‘Normal,’ Because who DOES fit those images or expectations thrown at you every hour by society regarding being perky but non-confrontational, having the right body shape, the ‘can do everything, work, have a perfect relationship and host a dinner for 14!’ expections until you feel like an ‘other’, and ‘outsider’ and if in any way genetically different, a ‘freak.’

    Archive 2010-01-01 Elizabeth McClung 2010

  • An exploration of pop culture and sports that takes a Klostermaniacal look at expections, reality, media, and fans.

    Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture Chuck Klosterman 2010

  • That is a diversity not under the oppression of ‘Normal,’ Because who DOES fit those images or expectations thrown at you every hour by society regarding being perky but non-confrontational, having the right body shape, the ‘can do everything, work, have a perfect relationship and host a dinner for 14!’ expections until you feel like an ‘other’, and ‘outsider’ and if in any way genetically different, a ‘freak.’

    I am fevered and do the R word. Plus Intersex: 3 million USA women gagged by society, by us. Elizabeth McClung 2010

  • An exploration of pop culture and sports that takes a Klostermaniacal look at expections, reality, media, and fans.

    Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture Chuck Klosterman 2010

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