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We're looking forward to honoring the players from the past who made this program what it is today, ... Our fans should expect the total package they find at Round Rock (site of Dell Diamond) and other nice stadiums.

We're looking forward to getting back out there for the second series, and we expect to do better than what we did in the Division Series.

We're looking for rates to end the year at 2.0 percent and we expect the Fed to speed up its tightening next year.

We've got a new coach in Mike Babcock, who has no preconceived notions about either guy. They're both in their early 30s and they both are on one-year contracts, so I expect a healthy competition and I hope in the end the team is the benefactor.

We've turned the focus from the turmoil of the hurricane and injuries to each game. We're not overlooking anyone. We do expect it to be a physical game tonight.

We have seen and I expect will continue to see a softening of demand for single-family housing that has been unmatched by a decline in construction. Eventually builders get with the program.

We have to go with the decision that's been made and they're going to give him a shot. I definitely want to get back out there and do what they expect me to do.

We have to go out and expect to win every game. I think everyone knows it's our job.

We have a small squad again of 14 or 15 guys. We have to work within those constraints. We're working on a lot of things right now, trying to sort out who is going to play where. It's a little early to know what to expect yet but we've got to hope for the best.

We have no plans to make any significant changes. ... The mill won't close. We understand the importance of the company to the Longview community. We would expect a significant portion of management would stay in place.

We have no plan in place. We don't expect that to happen.

We have named him in the team. We expect him to be fit. Let us wait till tomorrow.

Whenever we play L.A., we look at their stats and they're one of the most penalized teams in the league. They play hard all the time, right on the edge. So you've got to expect to get power plays. We lost a little bit of our discipline in the third period and had to kill some too, but in the first two periods, we kept on task.

Whenever there is a rivalry, people play above their potential. It's more important to them. Expect a fast pace and more aggressive style in this game.

When your worst day at work is better than your best day with your partner, it's time to work at getting the fun back, ... While it's naive to expect the spontaneous delight of early love to last forever, it's tragic to let enjoyment slip so far away, it can't be retrieved.

When you're up 5-3 going into the third period, you expect to win. They won because they worked harder than we did. It's as simple as that.

When you're up 10, 12, 15 points early in the game, you have to expect the other team to put things together. Fortunately, it doesn't hurt you too bad when it happens.

When he gets the puck, people start to come out of their seats. It's expect the unexpected with Max." ()

We want our airplane back, and we're going to make that point, and we would expect to get a response.

We want to show the company that we are reasonable and are willing to work. But we also expect them to return the favor.

We want to send a very strong message ... this is not what we expect out of civilized society, ... We're going to make an example of somebody.

We want to send a very clear and unequivocal message that after attacks like this it's not business as usual. We expect them to follow through on their promises -- that these armed gangs be disarmed. Our entire ability to move forward is based on that promise.

We'll be doing some troubleshooting. It's going to be all new. We don't even really know what to expect in terms of the kinds of issues people might be coming up against.

We'll be building up to being a lot faster and a lot more precise with our passing in our approach. You can expect some longer rallies coming from us.

We'll see short-term ups and downs, but I think it's going to be a decent year. There are ample profits for companies to invest in technology. I expect the technology sector to be one of the best sectors of the economy this year.

We are also moving forward with our plans to lease eight branch sites in Hillsborough, Pasco, Polk, Pinellas and Manatee counties, marking our entrance into Hillsborough, Pasco and Polk counties and increasing our presence in Pinellas and Manatee counties. These eight new locations, which we expect to open in 2006, will bring Coast's branch total to 20 offices in the greater Tampa Bay area. While these new locations will temporarily decrease short- term profitability, they should provide solid contributions to earnings in future periods.

We are (also) making steady progress on the planned sale of certain international operations. We expect to reach some final decisions in this area over the next few months.

We are already part of a global marketplace in many respects. We import a significant amount of gas out of Canada. And we do see LNG cargoes coming into the U.S. today, subject to a global price mechanism, and we expect that to increase over time.

We are already in full compliance because we have Level 2 screenings on all our employees and any persons under contract to provide direct services to students, ... As for other entities or contractors who go on school grounds when students are present, we expect them to comply with the law.

Therefore the public, specifically parents, should be able to turn on their televisions and radios and expect decent and reasonable material.

The refinancing boom and effects from the tax rebates are waning, so spending on big-ticket items such as cars may be slowing down, ... But spending on services, which is where the majority of the job creation occurs, has held on, and we expect it to pick up. Friday's payroll report should be a good indication of that.

There exists a gap between what patients expect with regard to end of life care and what actually happens,

The reduced profitability reflects our continued significant investments in geographic expansion, new product launches, Torstar Digital and TTN, all of which we expect will increase profits in future years.

With Windows 2000 revenues not really kicking in until 2001 and the continued weakness of the business PC sales impacting Microsoft's core business, we expect the fourth quarter to be lackluster, coming in slightly above the third quarter.

We accomplished our main goal of staying undefeated at home. Now we look forward to welcoming Stanford because we have a lot deeper lineup than last year. I expect a close match.

We accept that they want to appoint their own consul of advisers, but at the same time they should also expect a backlash from the indigenous people if they announce a lineup with Indian names.

We always expect to win. If you don't expect it you've defeated yourself. You just let the marbles play out.

We always expect Northeastern to play hard in their own rink. We're feeling the urgency to really get some wins in Hockey East. We want home ice advantage for the playoffs.

We always expect any team can beat you. Coach Mike stresses the fact that you can't underestimate anybody.

We always expect a good game from them. It's playoff intensity.

This was a surprise. But I tell our guys to expect the unexpected ... When you come to grips with how you have to beat a team, most of the time you are going to be very successful.

This was a step back. We didn't expect to have to fight like we did against a team like Howard.

We want the damages order to reflect the value of the music that was distributed. We don't yet have a figure, but we expect it to be in the order of several billion dollars.

We are not asking for jail time, just probation and some community service is what I would expect . . .,

We are hoping for others to come up big. I do expect Stephanie Clark to have a better season.

We are hopeful passengers are reasonable and understand this a law that needs to be enforced. We definitely expect some trials and tribulations.

We did not expect to see you until next month. Santa Claus came early this year.

We did not expect to see so much volatility at the open, given the run-up in 3Com, in anticipation of the float,

We did not expect this would happen. We just want to make people happy every day. We hope people will understand that we just wanted to help.

We did not expect this to go this far ... It was a mistake. We apologize and regret what happened to Thailand and her people,

We did not expect this. I don't think our policies were wrong, but we must reconsider our tactics.

We did not expect it would take this long and we are disappointed by the time frames.

We did not expect it to be catastrophic. I expected to come back to a mess, maybe our furniture and clothes would be all wet, then we thought maybe the worst was that the house would be gutted.

We did not expect any change in interest rates today from the Bank of England, although clearly a further reduction in the run-up to Christmas would have been helpful to both retailers and industry in general.

We did not expect a light game. We've got to keep working on little things, keep our energy up and stay positive.

We did give up some second and third shots. (Mercer) shot the lights out and played well, but they didn't do anything we didn't expect them to. The difference was we didn't handle it very well.

We did fine. So far, so good. I wasn't sure what to expect with so many young kids here for the first time. Tomorrow is the harder day.

We did expect that and are aware of the school's limited facilities. Superintendent Norris has made this a priority and is addressing the situation. We anticipate we will have at least some of the issues involving the science labs resolved this fall.

We did expect a sharp deterioration of the trade balance. The real story on the trade numbers is that the import surge reflects very solid domestic demand.

We'd expect to hear from him in a reasonable amount of time, and take it from there. I haven't been through this before. We're glad he is safe, but we'd like to know what's going on.

What we need now from the Libyans is not equivocal or conditional statements, but simple straightforward acceptance. We expect their deeds to be the proof of their stated intentions.

There is a point beyond which it isn't practical to expect so many different things from the same group of people.

There are players who have been though this. And the comment was: 'You can expect this every night.' . . . Hatcher had a big role in that. He was speaking seconds after we got into the locker room . . . (reminding players to) get ready for the next one.

There are no excuses for getting blown out like that. Your competitiveness makes you try to find a way to play and to try and get back into the game. You take a game like that personally. I never expect to get beat by 30.

There are multitudes whose life is nothing but a continuous lottery; who are always within a few months of plenty and happiness, and how often soever they are mocked with blanks, expect a prize from the next adventure

There are some signs of fatigue. We're still in a bull market but it's important to remember that it's over 27 months old. We can't expect it to rock and roll the way it did even a couple of months ago.

There are some shareholders who want BT to hold on to Wireless because they feel the company could lose revenue that a combined company can enjoy, ... I expect the sale to go ahead. BT has called an analysts meeting for September 5 to outline its plans for BT Wireless.

There are some serious questions here. It is very reasonable for you to expect that your medical records will be kept safe and secure. That doesn't appear to be what happened.

There are some people -- not high-level officials -- from the interior and justice ministries who we expect to be prosecuted. Different kinds of torture happened, from beating to mental torture. These people had no right to torture anybody.

There are some indications here that the suburbs are much more in play ... and I would expect going into 2006 to see the Democrats being very aggressive in order to capitalize on their gains this year.

There are fears that any supply disruptions could disturb oil markets and such concerns are holding back both economic growth and stock prices. In the absence of any such disruptions, we expect that crude will stay in the $50-$70 range this year and will likely always be on investors' minds.

We're playing our starting players. I don't expect Philip to play at all, barring injury.

We're playing for everybody in the Tennessee family. If the fans bail on us now, then the fans are not true Tennessee football fans. You can't win every single football game, but we do expect to. The fans expect to, and those are the expectations you deal with when you come to a school such as Tennessee.

We've been hitting the ball pretty well lately, knock on wood, but I didn't expect us to come out as hot as we did.

We thought we could do well but we didn't expect to be in this position. We've put ourselves in position to do something special. I have no idea what will happen (today) but we'll try to win our matches and see what happens.

We really have been helping each other through tough times. Obviously, it started as a result of a tragic event you never expect to read about. The idea and the relationship came out of tragic necessity.

We really expect the mission to be transformational. This is the capstone of the original visits to the planets. It takes us 4 billion miles away and 4 billion years back in time.

We're a team in a little bit of a transition. But I still expect us to contend. And I didn't even expect us to contend for the pennant last year.

We're at 50 percent complete. We're on time. We're on schedule. We expect to open this in March of 2007.

We're at 40% of capacity right now. We measure our success and the success of the facility one customer and one order at a time. That way we make sure we are living up to what our customers expect and provide the service they need to service their customers.

We're a pretty young team. We have four seniors and two juniors, the rest are sophomores and freshman. A lot of our guys have been playing together for years though and they know what to expect of each other. They like the game and they know what they're doing out there. We just need to get some repetitions ? at the plate and in the field ? and I think they'll come along very well.

We're a pretty good hockey team. In our locker room, we expect to win. Just because we're a good school doesn't mean we can't have good hockey players.

We're anticipating that over the weekend that flows will start to come up at Red Earth First Nation along the Carrot River and we expect that there will be some residents flooded in the community.

We're anticipating a very generous EU response. We have a very strong commitment from the U.S. We expect the Japanese to come with a strong commitment.

We hear sirens all the time out here, so you just expect there's been an accident.

We have yet to receive responses, but expect both to agree.

We hope to see some progress, but we didn't really expect too much ... because the process takes time, ... The basic problem existing, is still the lack of trust between the United States and North Korea.

We hope to have a good idea of where the county needs future infrastructure after we finish this plan. I don't expect many changes in the update but these meetings will help us determine that.

We hold ourselves up to the same Electronics Industry Code of Conduct standards as we expect from our suppliers.

Yes it will, and I think Monterrey is just over an hour away by air. We felt it was very important to have an association with a Mexican team and we've created this Rio Grande Plate. We have a two-year agreement for 2006 and 2007 -- we expect that it will be a much longer lasting agreement than that, but we wanted to kind of put our toe in the water and see how it looks. I think it's going to be very positive.

Yes, it was an awesome season. I can't believe we made it so far. It's disappointing because people began to expect us to win; they were talking about picking up their Monday passes (for the state championship). It almost feels like we let them down.

We have received and expect to receive many more indications of interest as a result of our board's recent adoption of a liquidation plan. We intend to achieve the highest value reasonably attainable for our shareholders in an expeditious manner; however, we must caution that until a prospective purchaser has completed their due diligence and a definitive purchase and sale agreement with respect to one or more of the company's properties has been signed, there is no agreement on value.

The fact that no traces of agent have yet been found and that other chemicals that one would not expect in such a facility have been found do raise doubts about the conclusiveness of the analysis.

The external environment is still very difficult, and we expect that they're likely to report a loss this year.

The extension is crucial. We can't expect a system that enslaved us to save us.

The fact is, we've been in every game. We expect more now. Our defense is what's gotten us to win games, and Arizona was our worst defensive game of the year. We just didn't defend in that game.

We've still got a capacity squeeze from that area. Demand has been very strong short-term and we expect it will be strong next year.

We've stepped up our game by expanding Motown Winter Blast and bringing even more excitement to downtown Detroit. Come Super Bowl Sunday, we expect people to not only talk about which team they're cheering on but also the great time they had at our outdoor extravaganza.

The problem with that is you've got to win. You can't expect teams to keep losing. There's some teams in the division that are good teams and we can be a good team, too, but we're not playing consistent enough to be a good team.

There are a lot of folks around town who I expect will protest.