There was keen expectation that a parliamentary commission in the UK would explore a different approach.
Anticipation will mix with keen expectation in a crowd of around 30,000 spectators here on Saturday as Dartmouth carries the royal colours to post before the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes, a race named after his owner's parents.
On 10 March, the Manchester Guardian congratulated the Norwegian and, rather grudgingly, said: "We shall not grudge Amundsen his great success, which none but an explorer of great courage and resolution could win, but we look forward also with keen expectation to the solution of the questions which his success has raised".
But it is also about a younger lot with a new skill, and even keener expectations.
Charles Dickens represented Magwitch as playing "a complicated kind of patience with ragged cards" in Great Expectations (1861), and Queen Victoria's German husband, Albert, was a keen player.
But Bennett himself was keen to frustrate expectations.
If the diamond fields were the key test, then Col Kposowa was keen to lower expectations.
Could it, in turn, ensure financial security for the Bristol Old Vic? Morris is keen to dampen expectations.
Ms Smith is keen to temper expectations of the improvements that better data-management and passenger communication will bring.
The base year will now be recalibrated every few years, with the next recalculation scheduled for 2016.Despite the celebratory tone of the announcement, Mr Kale and Nigeria's Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala seemed keen to manage expectations.
The minutes show that MPC members were concerned by the "surprising" rise in UK government bond yields that followed Bernanke's remarks, and were keen to dampen expectations that interest rates were set to rise.
