The short-term economic outlook is darkening.One worry is an unexpected pick-up in inflation.
Clearly, her big task on Wednesday and in the days ahead was to drive home the image the McCain campaign has sought to attach to this unexpected pick: the corruption-fighting governor from outside Washington, a socially conservative mother of five who can easily connect with working-class Americans in a way that Mr. Obama has so far had trouble doing.
The unexpected picks were the Gloucester scrum-half Dan Robson, one of precious few Kingsholmites to emerge from a desperate season with reputation enhanced, and… um… a New Zealander, in the shape of the 29-year-old lock Michael Paterson.
We learned from wealth management institutions that allocate the pools into their high net worth accounts that in some cases interest rates have been lower than promised, due to unexpected pick-up in defaults.
There were other unexpected picks as well.
It is hard to imagine an unexpected vice-presidential pick at the last minute, like John Kennedy's selection of Lyndon Johnson in 1960, Richard Nixon's choice of Spiro Agnew in 1968 or even George Bush Sr.'s elevation of Dan Quayle in 1988 -- all of which caught the candidates' advisers by surprise.
The death of Senator Paul Coverdell, Republican of Georgia, gives Democrats an unexpected chance to pick up a crucial seat in their uphill fight to seize control of the Senate this fall, political analysts said today.
It was an unexpected pile.
Loach's film, which initially struggled to find funding, has been an unexpected hit: first picking up the Palme d'Or in Cannes, then being endorsed by the likes of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
In Gameloft's NFL 2010, if I blitzed from an unexpected location, nobody picked it up and the QB hit the dirt.
When asked where he thinks the sharing economy will go next, Varsavsky picks an unexpected area: fertility.
