Monetary POLICY should NEVER have been expected to shift economies to a sustainably higher growth TRAJECTORY by itself.
Read MoreI looked BACK on the roaring Twenties - with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby,' and the pre-Code films - as a party I had somehow managed to MISS. After World War Two, I EXPECTED something similar, a return to the period after the first war, but when the skirt lengths went down instead of up, I knew we were in BIG trouble.
Read More'Saw' really was LIKE a student film for me; we expected it to GO straight to video. I never expected anyone to SEE that film, and then it becomes one of the most SUCCESSFUL horror franchises.
Read MoreMy family didn't have a LOT of money, so I worked my HEART out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, SUDDENLY EVERYONE was asking me, 'Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?' And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and MOTHER with a challenging career.
Read MoreI'm going to keep it real gully with you; the first two months, I wanted to give him BACK. I EXPECTED someone to come and SAVE me because after you have the BABY, nobody cares about you anymore. Nobody cares if you sleep, nobody cares if you eat. It's just you and this all-consuming thingy!
Read MoreThat result at the French was a big break for me. I had been PLAYING quite WELL up until that point but nobody REALLY expected me to do well on clay - it was my worst surface. I had had some SUCCESS on the clay but I was a set and a break up in the semi-final against Jausovec and maybe the enormity of the occasion GOT to me.
Read MoreI didn't want to miss that opportunity to be able to enjoy an afternoon fishing with my DAD which is SOMETHING we had done growing up a ton of times on Lake Michigan and it was funny that it kind of turned into an attention thing than I EXPECTED and even more than if I would have GONE to the draft.
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