Not exact matches
On a final note, Boeing — the world's largest aircraft manufacturer — hit fresh new highs last week after the company crushed Wall Street
expectations, reporting
record operating cash flow of $ 13.4 billion for 2017, up more
than a quarter percent from $ 10.5 billion in 2016.
Revenue in its holiday quarter surged 74 % to a
record $ 46.3 billion, and profit more
than doubled to $ 13.1 billion, trouncing Wall Street's
expectations.
The gross domestic product (GDP) numbers for the third quarter came in slightly higher
than the 0.3 percent
recorded in the second quarter and beat market
expectations of a 0.3 - percent growth.
Medium - term
expectations recorded in the NAB Survey show some substantial declines in expected inflation have occurred during the past year, but more
than half the respondents still expect inflation to be in the 3 to 4 per cent range.
Nothing could be more mistaken
than that
expectation, as the young clergymen whose conversation was
recorded in the opening chapter discovered.
That the Tigers — last year's biggest surprise with a 12 — 2
record and a No. 4 finish in the AP poll — were anything less
than elated after a win over a Top 25 team that played in a BCS bowl last January shows how
expectations have dramatically changed at a school that hasn't won a conference title since 1969.
What's more important though, is they've continued to look better over their last 5 Games
than they did in the early parts of the season and no matter what their
record is come Playoff time, as long as they are playing this way, they'll exceed all
expectations that their seed will provide.
The Vikings spent a little more
than 72 hours with Shaun Hill as their 2016 starter before swinging a surprise trade for Sam Bradford over the weekend, but on a team with more measured
expectations, Hill (career
record as a starter: 16 — 18) would probably have been trusted to play out the string, as he did admirably in San Francisco -LRB-» 08), Detroit -LRB-» 10) and St. Louis -LRB-» 14).
This shower has
records going back for more
than a millennium in all, but the orbital evolution of the stream leads to an
expectation that they will not continue for more
than a few more centuries.
Due to logistic realities, observers might not be able to physically visit classrooms more
than a few times a year but through technology, such Facetime, Skype, video
recording, could gather additional evidence of whether teachers are meeting district
expectations.
In addition to the fact that untrained teachers were hired and teachers were assigned out of field, college admissions standards were lowered for teacher education programs: Teachers, on average, had poorer academic
records and test scores
than other college graduates, and many teacher education programs lowered their
expectations to accommodate their clientele.
To begin with, the U.K.'s manufacturing PMI reading for September dropped from 56.7 to 55.9, which is a much harder drop compared to
expectations that it would only ease to 56.2 because «the latest gain in new orders was slower
than the prior survey month» and because employment growth «was slightly below August's three - year
record.»
GREENWICH, Conn. — Last month's Global Pet Expo in Orlando, Fla., exceeded
expectations in nearly every way, with thousands of vibrant, innovative and useful new pet products introduced and more buyers attending the show
than last year, including a
record number of foreign retailers.
Activision Blizzard more
than meets
expectations by
recording $ 658 million in revenues.
Depicting a march of abstract figures, the untitled circa 1958 work exceeded
expectations and sold for $ 800,000 ($ 965,000 including fees), more
than twice the high estimate and an artist
record.
Our larger museums had a mixed
record this spring: the New Museum beat
expectations with its less - techy -
than - feared third triennial («Surround Audience»), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened its largest ever show of Native American art («The Plains Indians»), but The Museum of Modern Art, with the historic disaster of «Björk», lost much of the goodwill it had accrued the previous year.
(ii) The same as (i) except that over the past two decades (1984 - 2004, say) the rate of
record - setting for July conditions is higher
than for the two decades prior to that (as opposed to the
expectation that
records should be harder to attain).
I haven't done a quantitative analysis, but my guess is that given an old
record, «A», and a new
record, «B», the
expectation that a year soon after B will be even less
than B (a newer
record) is probably less the larger the B minus A difference (eg, reversion to the mean), BUT, the
expectation that a year soon after B will be less
than A should increase the larger that difference (eg, there is more confidence in a larger decreasing trend due to Bayesian updating).
I find the GAP program as implemented by the Defendant was less an instrument of help
than it was a way to
record Ms. Brake's anticipated inability to meet the Defendant's shifting
expectations in order to justify a decision that had effectively already been made.