Alain de Botton July has taken over from April as the cruellest month, annually raising expectations – of festivals, outdoor parties, playing tennis late into the night – and then dashing them with storms, flash floods and freakishly low temperatures.
Mmm, is there anyone out there, a white, male literary novelist, frequently on the receiving end of sharp commentary for the bufferish range of his interests, his excessive self-absorption, general snobbishness and high self-regard, who might, 10 years from now, translate into an annually frustrated expectation of a Nobel Prize for Literature?
Marathon officials invite about 36,000 runners annually with the expectation that about 30,000 or 31,000 will participate.
Separately, Eurostat said euro zone producer prices rose 0.3 percent month-on-month in May and 3.1 percent annually, in line with economists' expectations.
CSX said it expects earnings per share to grow by 18 to 21% annually through 2010, compared with a previous expectation of 15 to 17% growth.
The Opinion Research Corporation, for example, found in March that investors with portfolios of at least $100,000 had scaled down their expectations for long-term stock returns to 9.5percentt annually, from 13.5percentt only a few months earlier.
New York City would receive $3.17 billion more annually within four years, with the expectation that the city stick to Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan to increase its own spending by $2.2 billion annually within four years.
If the crowd lifted him, they deserve a medal too, because they carried none of the freight of the regulars who come here annually to cheer in hope rather than expectation.
At 1.5% annually, inflation is therefore below the Fed's explicit expectations.
The Social Security Administration estimates that undocumented immigrants paid $100 billion into the system over the past decade, without any expectation of collecting benefits, and they contribute an additional $12 billion annually in state and local taxes.
