Zimmer said it expected the overall need for early replacement in patients would be low.
Mr. Brown said he expected the overall number of tobacco farms in North Carolina to decline by 50percentt if a buyout is carried out.
Though December was weaker than expected, the overall holiday season was relatively strong, analysts said, especially when November's 6 percent increase in sales is taken into account.
Mr. Spinnato said he expected the overall occupancy rate for October to be about 65percentt, or about 10 percentage points lower than analysts had expected before Sept. 11 and 20 percentage points lower than this time last year.
"I'm not my normal self if I get dropped by a group like that," he said, adding that he had not expected the overall standings to change on Tuesday.
In a survey of corporate executives this year, Ernst & Young found that 76 percent expected the overall volume of mergers and acquisitions to improve, but only 29 percent expected to do a deal in the next 12 months.
In a blog post, Paul Stanistreet from the adult learning organisation Niace, says that while the cuts are largely in line with what the government had already announced – and not as severe as had been expected – the overall picture is extremely challenging.
Barry Meyer, the chairman and chief executive of AOL Time Warner's Warner Brothers, and Robert Iger, the president and chief operating officer of Walt Disney, who are serving as spokesmen for the studio and network negotiating teams, said they expected the overall strike talks to be arduous.
As expected, the overall transmittance decreased with increasing Cr thickness.
As expected, the overall performance improves with an increase in network size.
Thus, as expected, the overall throughput is reduced for all the protocols (see Figure 7).
