Yet, despite the surging stock market the U.S. economy is not growing very fast despite the hopes and wishes of most stock market players.

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She is a nervous woman, unsteady in her reactions and relationships to other people, naive and insistent that her hopes and wishes can and will become reality.

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We also have a brief scene between Sansa and Littlefinger, as he plots and plots some more and our damsel in distress hopes and wishes for a way to escape.

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Obviously, hopes and wishes alone will not suffice.

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The question is how comfortable is the President with -- that the information the Japanese are giving to the U.S. from Prime Minister Kan to him and below is accurate and not just best-case scenarios and hopes and wishes?

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He wishes simply to get on with his life and hopes that the perpetrators are brought to justice.

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