In 1998 it was Nortel's stock that was punished for failing to live up to expectations.
If the funds didn't live up to expectations, those gratuities were taken away, Galvin said.
However, the rumor mill is saying the Galaxy S4 smartphone will not live up to expectations.
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Voters may yet grow disenchanted if these programmes fail to live up to expectations.
Rollups in trash hauling and funeral homes largely failed to live up to expectations for this reason.
Hulu was previously considered a serious threat to Netflix, but it failed to live up to expectations.
However, such meetings have failed to live up to expectations in the past, so the scope for disappointment is high.
Easdaq initially touted itself as just that, but it has failed to live up to expectations: its listings pale beside the 165 on Euro.
Previous technologies, including the telegraph, aircraft, radio and television, were also expected to bolster democracy, he observes, but they failed to live up to expectations.
Drogba produced a rare moment of brilliance in a game that failed to live up to expectations to complete a cup Double for the Blues.
Panama has failed to live up to expectations, however, and Yahoo!'
But for that game to fail to live up to expectations?
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But the decade that followed did not live up to expectations.
Northug, 24, won three gold medals at last year's World Championships but failed to live up to expectations in his first three events at the Games.
Only the official channel Rossiya provided an analysis of the new US presidency in its main evening bulletin, saying that it was unlikely to live up to expectations.
And if the 2006 World Cup does not live up to expectations, a bigger commercial prize lies only two years down the road, at the Olympic Games in Beijing .
Even if shale gas does not live up to expectations in Europe, the continent is already benefiting from it: as America imports less gas than expected, that helps bolster supplies and reduce prices for Europeans.
This well-reported and smart article on Reuters explained the growing failure of Groupon ( GRPN) to live up to expectations, and explored how it might alter its business model to revive growth and survive.
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With immense pressure on Chukwu and NFA officials to earn their passage to the knockout stages of the Nations Cup, Mohammed did not rule out the dissolution of the NFA board should they fail to live up to expectations in Tunisia.
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But time and time again the NHS has failed to live up to expectations - at least in the way the health service interacts with patients and shares information (a much stronger case can be made for its use of technology in areas of medicine, such as robotic surgery).
It would be a bummer, I'd go so far as to say suicidal, if I'd spent the price of a prix fixe dinner at Le Bernardin on air freshener, only to get it home and discover it didn't live up to expectations, that my apartment smelled not like spring in Provence but a Parisian bordello.
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And now the task is not only to get more medals but to live up to new expectations.
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Did the Best Buy people live up to the expectations of CSR activists?
The risk that fourth quarter and 2013 earnings will not live up to current expectations is not in the market.
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What your job is, is to make sure whenever you do come face-to-face with them, you live up to their expectations.
Ultimately, James failed to live up to the expectations that he set.
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In 1998, vendors shipped some 1.4 million smart handheld devices in Western Europe, a number which did not live up to market expectations, McKenzie said.
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