Alexander is expected to make a longer-term announcement regarding the captaincy after the tournament.
"I think there was a widespread perception that there would be many more near-term announcements of dramatic change than what we're actually going to see," said Rear Adm. Craig R. Quigley, assistant secretary of defense for public affairs.
The drastic initial reduction followed by intermittent short-term announcements of availability of new funds did perversely have some benefits, including stimulation of arrangements for sharing equipment and the ability to make swift and bold decisions.
When President Abdelaziz Bouteflika rebuffed critics on February 22nd by declaring he will run for a fourth five-year term, the announcement came not from the statesman himself, but in an almost offhand comment by his prime minister, Abdelmalek Sellal.The last time the 76-year-old president spoke in public was in May 2012.
Shortly after the term-limits announcement, a widely shared image of China's last Emperor, Pu Yi, with the caption "Emperor calls: 'Is my Qing Dynasty returning?,' " was banned on WeChat, China's most popular messaging app.
If speculation about impending retirements on the Supreme Court proves correct, an end-of-term retirement announcement might well coincide with late June decisions in the affirmative action and gay rights cases the court accepted on Monday.
In cynical personality terms, the announcement that Ofcom is to consult on the amount of money ITV pays the government for its licences is an opportunity for the network's chief executive Charles Allen to get out of jail.
But many in Raqqah termed the announcement a publicity stunt to draw attention to ISIS' establishment of a caliphate because so few Christians are left in the province.
Apple's event will likely have company in terms of announcements from rival Samsung, so expect a busy September all around.
More investment funds now trade against a company's short-term profit announcements rather than its long-term fundamentals.
"For the people who followed Lucent long term, the earnings announcement was a surprise," said Greg Geiling, an analyst at J. P. Morgan Securities.
