Financial markets were barely anticipating military conflict less than two weeks before its start; just like today, the spread, or excess interest rate, on emerging-market bonds was at historical lows.
Yet even he could barely have anticipated that he would become leader of the party – admittedly then consisting of only 12 MPs – at the age of 37. Jo Grimond's abrupt retirement in January 1967, however, posed the party a problem.
She said that 700,000 more people may be at risk than officials anticipated barely a month ago, when it made an appeal for contributions for 2001.
The gaming giant's New York store Twitter account just dropped the news that the eagerly anticipated (though barely seen) convertible console will open for pre-orders at the company's storefront at 9AM that same day.
The fraying dynasty presided over by the octogenarian matriarch Stella (Elizabeth Ashley) is discovering that plummeting real estate values, unforeseen taxes and a shrinking dollar are forcing its members to make do and get along (well, barely) in ways they never anticipated.
As a visual experience, The Americans is closer to cinema than photography, and it is hardly surprising that it anticipated Frank's move into film-making by barely a year.
In a career that slyly subverted Abstract Expressionism, toyed briefly with Minimalism, seemed barely to acknowledge Pop Art and anticipated some of the concerns of Conceptualism, Mr. Twombly was a divisive artist almost from the start.
New Jersey says it expects only $100 million, a fraction of its usual take, while Arizona says it anticipates just $6 million, barely 8% of the $73 million it collected during its last amnesty in 2002.
Major stock indexes barely moved Friday, suggesting job losses had been anticipated.
If it was, then it was in far worse shape than we'd anticipated, not exactly a spiral and barely a jetty at all.
