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expectation
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come up to someone's expectations
to be as good as someone expected. Sorry, but this product does not come up to my expectations and I want to return it.
See also: come, up

fire someone with anger and fire someone with enthusiasm; fire someone with hope; fire someone with expectations

Fig. [for someone's words] to fill someone with eagerness or the desire to do something. The speech fired the audience with enthusiasm for change. We were fired with anger to protest against the government.
See also: anger, fire


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It was the result of self-fulfilling expectational trader behaviour where everyone tries to buy before prices go any higher, forcing prices higher, in a self-perpetuating process.
5) My own paper with Edward Nelson was not the first in print, but is arguably the only one to explore the relationship of the new expectational specification with IS specifications of the traditional type.
Tax penalties and strong Fed controls over money and credit are then needed to contain speculation and overcome expectational resistance to stabilization efforts.
 
 
 
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