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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.

TV showrunners have become known entities to people who watch television in the way that movie directors have been known to filmgoers for a long time. When I started out as a writer and producer in television, I never had the slightest expectation that fame would be part of the job.

What does it mean to be an oncologist? It means that you get to sit in at a moment of another person's life that is so hyper-acute, and not just because they're medically ill. It's also a moment of hope and expectation and concern.

What the Fed may do right now is prepare the market for a switch to a tightening policy from a neutral policy, and that may happen as soon as this month. There's always been the expectation that the economy would slow and ease labor market conditions, but that doesn't seem to be happening.

We will not lower the level of ambition of the round. If necessary we may lower the level of expectation for Hong Kong,

We don?t think it?s a done deal yet. It?s moving really slow so we have to hang with it. But there is some expectation it will move toward the coast.

We don't think it's a done deal yet. It's moving really slow, so we have to hang with it. But there is some expectation it will move toward the coast.

We don't think it's a done deal yet, ... It's moving really slow, so we have to hang with it. But there is some expectation it will move toward the coast.

We certainly think that $3 a gallon gasoline will be broached in the next couple of days. Soon after, it could go much higher. The expectation is that we could be seeing $4 gasoline in the next couple of days.

We certainly don't need to get in a position where we have created some expectation that three or four years from now we can't meet. Promising a full scholarship at this early stage is not a good idea.

We're going through the roof here on the expectation of a 48-hour war. If the war is over quickly, you might see a 1,000-point rally on the Dow -- that's what the consensus is. Obviously, it's one of those things which might turn true before it even happens, which is dangerous.

To be honest, it's not the kind of game that we are excited about. When it's on the schedule, you just have to go and do what you do. The expectation of our players is to go out and play to our level.

To be honest, I just didn't want to say "Thank you," "Please," and "Come again" for the rest of my life. I felt like if I wanted to do this - films and TV - I didn't have the expectation that someone else would write for me. So I started writing for myself. And for the most part, I lied.

To be honest, I just didn't want to say ""Thank you,"" ""Please,"" and ""Come again"" for the rest of my life. I felt like if I wanted to do this - films and TV - I didn't have the expectation that someone else would write for me. So I started writing for myself. And for the most part, I lied.

To succeed in the tech industry, you start businesses, make money, and make smart investments. But to succeed in the tech community, you do and build awesome things, are generous with your time and efforts, and make a point of making space for strangers - without any expectation of payback.

We have every expectation that this deal will work.

We have every expectation that they will seek the permission of the property owner, but by this action, we've authorized them to be able to do that.

We have done exceptionally well in World Cup events this season, winning medals in snowboarding, freestyle moguls and freestyle aerials, and we are going to Turin with an expectation of winning medals there too.

Even though we are the home side, the pressure will be on England. I can't remember how long it is since they reached the final of a leading tournament, so there will be so much expectation on them now.

Be wait till your best time comes, it is ahead. Cease your painful moments with hope of happiness in next moment. Be happy, good you have done will come to you in next second, your sadness will be gone with suffering of your enemies who want to chop you over your innocence.

As the expectation is growing that the US Fed may end the rate hike cycle as early as its March meeting, the dollar will become susceptible to any weak US data.

At that point in my career, I didn't have an appreciation how difficult the transition is for young players to the big leagues. It's fortunate that everything's kind of broken right, that we've lived up to expectations. But that was a lofty expectation to place on the public here - no one's allowed me to forget that I gave that.

Commodity prices are rising, quite dramatically for copper, tin and steel scrap. That would not happen if there was an expectation of a slowdown.

Doug definitely won't be available for selection. That hamstring strain from the Crusaders game, he hasn't recovered from it and we didn't really have too much expectation there.

Every American has the right to and the expectation of privacy in their private conversations. The decision by the state attorney to impanel a grand jury to investigate Linda Tripp and perhaps others concerning the recordings of private conversations will help establish that our cherished right of privacy cannot be trampled on.

Employers may not want to know the gory details of your illness. What we do want to know is if you'll be reporting for work tomorrow. You need to give an expectation of when you'll be back at work so your supervisor can arrange for someone to temporarily cover for you.

Far from being a curse, it might be lucky to disturb a pharaoh's tomb. These people beat the life span expectation for those days by about a year.

There's still an expectation that the Fed will raise rates another quarter-point.

There's a cultural expectation that everyone will be immunized, in part to protect the entire population. When people refuse that expectation, they're indulging in a certain kind of political or social immunity.

There's slowly been a kind of shift in how we think about childhood. It's like childhood almost extends to 20 or 22 even after the end of college. When I was growing up, there was this expectation that you were on your own now.

There's skepticism out there. Companies are extremely cautious about giving a decent outlook. They've set a much lower level of expectation for the public and the analysts out there.

There should be high expectations, but the expectations should come from Reagan on down.

There's no reason at a time that you're at an emotional low to compound that with false hopes and expectation,

The trade gap is a canyon and I see no reasonable expectation of it narrowing anytime soon.

The time frame is past due. The expectation had been that by the time we kicked off our fund-raising in Canada, we would have had the final costs and design. However, what the Jerusalem Foundation of Canada has bought into and committed itself to is the significant investment in and renewal of Zion Square. And they were therefore comfortable in proceeding with the undertaking, even in the absence of the specific details of the architectural components.

I've been at this for a while, and to a very real extent, you look at cover art with the same sort of expectation you have for playing slot machines in Vegas. That is to say, you hope to break even and promise yourself not to flinch when all you get is the same sort of mix of fruit that you get in a cup of generic fruit cocktail.

Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.

The Russian statement is clearly bullish, as the market expectation of any support for OPEC from Russia has increased from its previous level of zero.

It would be nice to have a bit more burden of expectation on one of these tournaments,

These events continue to exceed expectation in terms of turnout. The organic nature of organization has been an important piece of these events being successful.

The Taiwan issue is miles ahead of any other agenda, as far as China is concerned. A reiteration of the one-China policy would be the minimum expectation from China. Any comments against the current movement would be considered a breakthrough.

The testimony and the week's data played in nicely with our expectation for 5 percent fed funds in May and little change for quite some time thereafter.

The thing we love most about Hurley is he's somehow able to say what people are saying in their living rooms just about the time people are saying it. We thought everyone's expectation would be for her to have a black husband. We wanted to confound everyone's expectation. Everyone would be looking for the 50-year-old black guy.

The thing I learned from him is a lot of time athletes and people try to make excuses, ... You have to get your expectation level to his. He expects you to be awesome, not just good.

Sometimes the expectation of being inspired in one specific way may close you off to the actual inspiration.

Sometimes, maybe some of the guys at that position, because of expectation, are put into situations before they're ready to have success, (and) that affects their confidence and their ability to develop.

Our expectation was to do better than we did at the district meet.

Our expectation was that it would have to do with Social Security, pensions, or health care.

Our expectation right now is we expect to bring at least several million gallons of discounted oil into Vermont and we expect to announce the details next week.

Our expectation looking forward is that risk will rise broadly in line with the size of the loan book as it has over the last 12 months,

Our expectation is to make the wet foot/dry foot policy more humane. We're not asking the government to commence an open-door policy that would encourage people leaving Cuba to risk their lives in the Straits of Florida.

Our expectation is that our kids play the game the right way and take the responsibility of taking it one pitch at a time. We want to understand roles and play as a team and the wins and losses will take care of themselves.

Our expectation is that our graduate assistants and all of our instructors will recognize their responsibilities and continue to fulfill them.

Our expectation is that house price growth will remain firmly in low single digits in 2006 as the economy recovers.

Our expectation is that by 2050, which is a long time away, India will be the largest economy in the world, overtaking both the U.S. and China.

Our expectation is Asia will continue to be strong.

Our expectation for gross margin percentage in the third quarter is 47 percent, plus or minus a couple of points. The change from the second quarter is driven largely by lower average selling prices of microprocessors.

Our expectation after the McDonald's campaign was that the corporations would trip over themselves to make similar changes. Instead, the corporations took a wait-and-see attitude.

People say there is a lot of expectation on the England side but I can't speak for them. We are just concentrating on ourselves and doing our homework. I think we have been doing that pretty well and we can look forward to going there.

People are willing to pay them because there is an expectation that prices will continue to rise. Once people don't have that expectation, things will change.

People expect a certain reaction from a business and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold.

People had themselves worked into state of expectation that the Fed was going you go 75 basis points and maybe even 100 and the fact that they only went 50 points (one-half percentage point) has obviously not been well received.

People came to APEC with an expectation that the nature of the new administration would be known, and as of yet the answer to that question is not clear,

The move in stock is a little overdone. There is an expectation that business will improve due to the lawsuit and that's the sole reason that the stock has gone up, ... But the case will be heard probably in a year and a half at earliest so I'm having trouble believing that this will have a near-term benefit for AMD.

After a five-year plunge, we'll finally wriggle out of the pattern this year. Funds are expected to flow into the market as the result of expectation that the stock shakeup will create a better investment scenario.

Notwithstanding his answers and my efforts to glean some hint or realistic expectation from his words and body language, candidly it is not possible to predict or have a solid expectation of what Judge Roberts would do,

Defense is the variable you have control over. Shooting the percentage we shot from the 3-point line is not a realistic expectation and being able to score at will from the block is not a realistic expectation. You should have high expectations of yourself defensively because that's about you.

Dealers should not necessarily assume that vendors' performance has fallen just because overall satisfaction slipped. I would assume that the expectation has risen.

Dear Vitali, I watched your brilliant bout with interest and expectation,

Despite the expectation for continued if not increased market volatility, we also expect to see returns more in line with historical levels, or approximately seven to ten percent annually, which still makes the markets very attractive for investors.

Depending upon the conditions and the situation in the game, I think that's a reasonable expectation. I think these guys would rather go out there than play the field position game with a punt.

Any community that fails to prepare -- with the expectation that the federal government can or will offer a lifeline -- will be tragically wrong.

A realistic expectation is somewhere between five and seven medals, which would exceed our best performances in Nagano (1998) and Lake Placid (1932). It's based on how our team has performed in World Cup races.

Any time an England team goes on the pitch, the expectation is there to win. The important thing for us is beating Wales, starting the momentum and getting the ball rolling. If you look at what was achieved by Wales last season, they won by a kick in the last five minutes against us which enabled them to grow. For us, it created a little bit of instability and, from that, we stuttered through the championship, so it is important we get a win in this first game.

Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.

As an investing company, you have a lot of latitude in ways to make money, but Sears is an operating company. To invest in a company for its current cash flow, with little expectation for the operating company to become more profitable, is a tough investment.

The bottom line is I'm the general manager of the club. I'm held accountable. The expectation of fans is a good thing. If the club continues to struggle, that rests on my shoulders.

The California housing market continues to experience year-over-year double-digit price appreciation, which is consistent with our expectation that the statewide median for 2005 will increase by 16 percent over last year.

That they would attack again soon after 9/11 was our expectation, not their expectation. If they wanted to send a guy into Wal-Mart with an AK-47, they could have a long time ago. But usually they wait until they can do something shocking, maybe three or four simultaneous attacks. You need time to do that.

That's why we offered some tips. We're trying to give people visual cues so you have some reasonable expectation that you are in a legal cab.

You've had two games decided by a total of seven points. Obviously, the expectation would be for this third game to be as good.

You need to explain they have no reasonable expectation of privacy in the workplace and what are the ramifications if they violate the policy.

This is a smart and athletic team that pushes themselves daily and has set their own expectation level very high.

This is one of the main biology buildings on campus. There are millions and millions of dollars of research going on here. And part of the expectation when you get a grant is that the infrastructure where you're working is able to support your research.

This isn't what I wanted. I had every expectation of still being here on Saturday. Whether it was for third place or first place, we wanted to still be playing.

The way we think about interacting over the Web is changing. It only took one application to alter our entire expectation level.

The way that I wanted them to respond was 'Hey, let's go on and do something maybe that nobody's ever done before and do something a little bit special,' and they have a chance to do that. Obviously returning so many players who have the experience of going deep into the state tournament, the expectation is for us that yeah, we want to get back there and we'd like to get back to that championship game.

This doesn't do anything to change the expectation for payrolls tomorrow, even though it is eye-catching that claims fell below 300,000.

This definitely raises expectation levels. Now I just have to keep it up.

They provide us with the Olympic break and we have to take advantage of it. Our expectation will be for our players to come back fresh and ready.

Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed.

A lot of people just stumble in and they're not aware of what they're looking at. When they find out, they're kind of surprised and say, 'Wow, this is really good.' The fact of the matter is a good portion of these artists went to art school. They're trained and it shows. There may an expectation that work won't be as good as your average gallery show because of the population producing it, but I think people are generally surprised and impressed.

They are taking a hit now with the expectation of this settlement on market timing.

You can't just bring the ring home anymore. There's an expectation that plans were made.

There was quite a lot of expectation on me before the event so I was just trying to get over the pressure and keep my head down and see who finished first.

There wasn't any expectation on her. You want to just announce yourself to the world and I think she did. She worked hard on the practices, and I know she's looking forward to worlds.

There will be no easy road there and we don't have any expectation it will be.

There's a certain expectation at the University of Delaware that Monte signed on for. He will fight every day to make sure their expectations are fulfilled.

There's a certain expectation, and I demand that things be done a certain way. Little things make a big difference.