"They expect lavish parties.
But it was worth it: races at Bahrain's lavish new circuit have outperformed expectations, drawing record television audiences, largely due to the relatively small time difference with European viewers.
If the release of the lavish new adaptation of Great Expectations has got you in the mood for a Dickensian Christmas, head for London's Doughty Street: the Charles Dickens Museum will reopen tomorrow after an eight-month, £3.1m renovation.
The Seattle native knew that it would take a truly spectacular project to lure him back to TV, and he found it in Starz and Mitch Glazer's ("Scrooged," "Great Expectations") "Magic City," a lavish, sprawling drama that takes place in Miami Beach in 1959.
Hundreds of them opened during the boom years, from 1997 to 2007, fueled by lavish tax breaks and the expectation of increased demand from home and abroad.
Lenders provided lavish, even excessive, financing based on unrealistic expectations of rising rents.
Identifying why the Mets, despite their lavish payroll, have not played up to expectations is not difficult.
With 18 extra months lavished on it, So Long, See You Tomorrow raises mild expectations of total, unimaginable self-reinvention.
First, companies encourage high new employee expectations by offering them "golden hellos" consisting of flowery job marketing, lavish benefits and unkeepable promises.
It was a fittingly lavish end to a V Festival that performed way above pretty much anybody's expectations.
