The overall revision, however, was slightly less than expectations.
Earlier this month, the government reported that consumer prices were stabilizing slightly, cooling fears of deflation, and that retail sales in February had fallen by less than expectations.
The Commerce Department reported that orders for new manufactured goods were up 1.3percentt in July — the fifth increase in six months, but less than expectations of a 2.2percentt increase.
Yet although I personally have less-than-zero expectation of achieving anything in 2012 (except maybe getting to the end of it), this total not-botheredness means I am free to offer up a few resolutions on behalf of those families who may be too busy to bother making their own.
Ms. Decker was polite, and said yes, but had less-than-lofty expectations about her date with Mr. Davidman, a financial planner in Manhattan.
Now, the expectation is for inflation of a little over 1 percent — or less than the expectation when the Q.E.2 program was begun.
Let S be the set of all those convex expectations which are bigger than a concave expectation (resp. less than a convex expectation, sandwiched between a convex expectation and a concave expectation).
The programs, featured prominently in college admissions literature, have become nothing less than an expectation among upper-middle-class teenagers, like braces and a car.
The observed changes being less than this expectation could be explained by several factors including the inherent, cis-acting regulation of these genes.
Positive values indicate that response residuals exceed expectations of the model, whereas negative values indicate that response residuals are less than the expectations of the model.
