What he found there were Russians who had "seen little of the rewards of the new era but felt much of its pain," who lived "without the slightest expectation that anything good should ever come to a people who deserved so much better".
But considering I was running Windows XP complete with all the updates, and have been spoilt by Google's usurpation of the word "beta" to mean "new and fun", I didn't have the slightest expectation there would be a problem.
The reading showed an improved short-term outlook ahead of the holiday season and a slight improvement in expectations about the job market.
A slight beat of expectations led to a nice bump in the stock.
However, there is a slight disagreement with expectations at very fine scales.
I think most people's first reaction upon hearing that Anne Carson, who identifies as a poet, had decided to write a sequel to a novel in verse about a quasi-mythical coming-of-age erotic meta-epic was somewhere amidst surprise, excitement, slight confusion, and expectation: a good mixture of whys.
The slight expansion met analysts' expectations.
But there are hints that the Fed's rush to reduce interest rates has already had a slight impact on inflation expectations.
The slight increase confounded analysts' expectations that the index would slip below the 50-point mark, which separates expansion from contraction.
Meanwhile, rising numbers of small firms complain that they "hardly have access any more to credit and reasonable development capital", said Mr Reich this week.A survey of Mittelstand companies, by Creditreform, a commercial-debt advisory group, shows that a slight upward trend in expectations last year has been thoroughly squashed: forecasts of turnover, employment and profits have fallen.
Contrary to our expectations, a slight TRPI was found in the lower alpha band.
