Like many pioneering TV series, ABC's "Fresh Off the Boat," a sitcom about a Taiwanese-American family running a Western-themed chophouse in Orlando, Florida, débuted to impossibly high expectations, hand-wringing, and prickly waves of preëmptive backlash.
Each interviewer tries to elicit the Ginsberg of his or her imagination -- William F. Buckley Jr., the dangerous radical; Playboy, the homosexual crusader; fellow dropouts, the mocker of squares -- and each time, Ginsberg performs judo flips on their expectations, handing back complex, nuanced versions of the attitudes with which they've tried to saddle him.
The surge in borrowing expectations came hand in hand with downgraded forecasts for growth in gross domestic product (GDP), with the OBR now predicting a 0.9% rise this year (down from 1.7% in March), 0.7% in 2012 (down from 2.5 % and 2.1% in 2013 (from 2.9%).
One of the first judgments that overturned legal expectations was handed down by the ICTY in February.
Because I grew up with a brother of around the same age, I saw the effects of a lot of these expectations first-hand.
So, while FoodPanda and its ilk do their best to manage user expectations, despite handing over to third parties control of quality of product and timing, Dah Makan keeps its service and system more manageable.
"Nestlé is living up to the expectation of handing back the cash to shareholders by increasing the buyback," said Marco Gulpers, the head food and beverage analyst at ING Wholesale Banking.
I watched the defendant, who had again frozen in a posture of silent expectation, his hands clasped in front of him.
No one knew what to expect, and with a packed weekend crowd on hand, expectations were high.
