Sentences with phrase «inflated expectations in»

In the case of ebooks, the Peak of Inflated Expectations in 2014 was out of all proportion to the genuine consumer demand that existed before the Kindle came on the scene.

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In today's bluebird forecasts for stocks, the biggest fallacy is highly inflated expectations for earnings.
You don't expect to receive them on a regular basis, which means that including them in your MRR calculations will inflate your revenue expectations and skew your financial model.
Although inflation compensation, which has returned as an accurate measure of inflation expectations, plays a key role in the recent rise in longer - term rates, an earlier post illustrated that the primary reason for the longer decline in the 10 - Year Treasury note rate is the real, or inflation - adjusted, yield, as measured by the rate on 10 - Year Treasury Inflated Protected Securities.
Burdened with doubt, anxiety and inflated expectations, he experienced panic attacks for the first time in his life, and it wasn't until a friend reminded him who holds his future that he was able to find a creative breakthrough.
Belgium have underperformed in recent tournaments compared to their inflated expectations, but this may be the World Cup they finally put it all together, and Hazard will need to be a big factor.
Specifically, she was thinking about Gartner's hype cycle, a glib model cooked up by an IT research firm, in which every new technology ascends a «peak of inflated expectations,» sinks into a «trough of disillusionment,» then climbs the «slope of enlightenment» to reach a «plateau of productivity.»
Rather, it resides in the realm of future inflated expectations, or perhaps imaginings, and plays on people's hope.
Ill - prepared by coddling helicopter parents and grade - inflating schools, my generation is entering the workforce with unrealistic expectations about promotion and responsibility, and, according to Levine and Dean, we are in for a fall.
If using a more lenient definition of proficiency leads citizens to evaluate their schools more favorably, then the advent of common expectations under the Common Core could alter public perceptions quite dramatically — perhaps increasing pressure for reform in regions of the country in which state proficiency definitions have provided an inflated view of student accomplishment.
A 2010 study on a pilot system in Chicago found, for instance, that when using the high end of the scale, principals often inflated their ratings compared to other observers, in part because of cultural expectations.
Overusing Test for Special Ed Students Inflates API Scores A deeper look at the results shows not only inflation contributing to the gains but also a substantial policy shift toward lower expectations for special education students in California.
Cora and her ilk would hold back important manuscripts for sale at the fair and then «slip» them with elaborate fanfare to favored editors in various territories, demanding that they be read overnight and soliciting preemptive offers, often inflated by the expectations and tensions of Frankfurt's carnival atmosphere.
Their expectations for what they deserve in this life are also inflated beyond what is reasonable.
Though Senior's article focuses on the problem of burn - out generally — particularly in New York City, the fast - moving metropolis of inflated expectations — as Herz notes, there's plenty in here to inform lawyers.
So while some venture funds may be doing their best to inflate expectations and cash in on high valuations, that appears to be causing problems only at the small end of the startup pool — for now.
What I found after our initial session was that the vast majority of these young men and women had spent months looking for the perfect job, all too often turning down job offers in their chosen field because they deemed them as below their inflated level of expectation, only to end up a few weeks or months later taking an even less appealing job in order to pay the rent.
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