A reasonable expectation to keep the parties' information confidential is required of the mediator.
He needs a big score to give him the appetite and expectation to keep going.
And the social expectation to "keep up" with trends, and therefore buy more clothes, is increasing.
"It is an effort to keep expectations low," Mr. Rutledge said.
Fox News Channel, owned by the News Corporation, has kept its war coverage plans fairly quiet in an apparent effort to keep expectations low.
For example, on the verge of a major seduction, Hamilton, in an effort to "keep his expectations down" about his meeting with Maria, "recalled how Congress had passed his bank bill over the objections of James Madison and the Jeffersonians, who argued that its powers could not be found in the Constitution.
Justine Roberts, Mumsnet.com founder, says: "Peer pressure reaches fever pitch and it can be a battle to keep expectations and costs down".
The logic is that a "marital norm" creates an expectation of commitment, helping to keep sexually active straight pairs faithful to each other in case a kid pops out; but calling a gay union a "marriage" could weaken that norm, since too few people regard gay relationships as models worth following.
They would usually highlight the fact that they are older, wishing the child were older, the fact that they might end up in a jail or trouble because of chatting with an underage children and so on, and so an expectation on the child to keep "Our Little Secret".
It may have been a wilful attempt to keep expectations at rock bottom but pre-tournament discussion in Albania centred for the most part on the nation's happiness to have reached their first tournament.
