Analysts say automakers, which once expected to get through the first year of a vehicle's life without offering incentives, are now devising deals faster than ever.
For the nuclear village, which once expected to supply at least half of Japan's power, that would be a grave disappointment.Instead, Japan is preparing for other long-term energy supplies.
The technological revolution, which was once expected to overturn the tyranny of distance, has in fact encouraged workers to cluster together and share clever ideas.
The intense face-off has come as a shock to the party establishment, which had once expected Republicans to quickly coalesce around Mr. Bush, a sunny conservative with crossover appeal to moderates and new immigrants whose image could replace the outdated Bob Dole or the polarizing former House speaker, Newt Gingrich.
He was, in some respects, a caricature of the German academic (which he had once expected to become): an imperious know-it-all with untamed hair in a misbuttoned frock coat.
She said: "CCS technologies are not taking off as once expected, which means CO2 emissions will keep growing substantially.
And it is an example of a type of image to which black Americans were once expected to conform: the servant or underling.
Further, senior Saudi ministers and Saudi Aramco executives have said privately that London might be a better fit than New York, says the FT's report, which suggests the offering, once expected this year, could now be delayed until 2019.
It also called for the e-borders system - which once operational is expected to collect details from passenger lists of all people entering and leaving the UK - to be implemented as quickly as possible.
The price Lucent is receiving for the business, which accounted for about $2 billion of Lucent's $33.8 billion in revenue last year, is significantly less than it had once expected.
The company, which once employed 150,000, now expects to have a work force of fewer than 55,000 by June.
