Economists did not predict that event, either.

But, whatever they do, they and the rest of the world must now expect surprises.

Trapped in their contradictions and zero sum national dreams, Israelis and Palestinians cannot expect a perfect solution.

Even without any portfolio shift, Americans shouldn t expect their recent luck to hold up in the future. If there is a global downturn, any region that is long stocks and short bonds is going to get burned.

These factors have inspired some China watchers to regard the country s economy as a bubble, if not to predict a hard landing in 2010.

Patient investors should be rewarded. In particular, they should be able to expect to be better off than those rushing to the exit.

The inheritors of the Soviet empire never anticipated that their future was to become the West s junior, poorer, repentant, and admiring partner.

As these persons could expect to be persecuted should they return to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, they may also be classified as refugees.

Given the uncertainty about future house prices, they could reasonably expect gains, which induced them to pay even more in the first place.

To this end, Obama has withdrawn his support for preconditions to peace negotiations, indicating to Palestinians that they should not expect a freeze on Israeli settlement construction ahead of talks.

This widespread assumption meant that doctors were not expecting new patients to appear, resulting in numerous problems in the years to follow, as the pollution continued.

In theory, bank lenders and the government could anticipate the additional risks they encounter when a company chooses a high leverage strategy.

People in rich countries already can expect to live about 30 years longer than people in the poorest countries.

Of course, if Chinese policymakers could have predicted what has now happened in the world economy, they might have been less stringent in trying to rein in growth.

Policymakers may wish to develop these sectors as a catalyst to innovation, but they should not expect that such initiatives alone can spur a recovery in private investment.

In the 1920 s, some warned about an overpriced stock market, but they did not predict a decade long depression affecting the entire economy.

It is time to accept that those who finance EU governments through purchasing their bonds are entitled to ask inconvenient questions, and to expect clear answers.

These factors have inspired some China watchers to regard the country s economy as a bubble, if not to predict a hard landing in 2010. But that judgment seems premature, at best.

Political competition makes it necessary for all politicians, whatever their age, to stay on their toes, anticipate new problems, and remain open to new ideas aimed at addressing them.

To be sure, a fiscal union such as that in the United States is a distant prospect that eurozone leaders should not expect to achieve any time soon or even in their lifetimes.

Today, people in the most affluent areas of the United Kingdom, such as Kensington and Chelsea, can expect to live 14 years longer than those in the poorest cities, such as Glasgow.

If the ICC s indictment now causes them discomfort, that is only because they did not anticipate that the Court would carry out the responsibilities that they themselves assigned to it.

In dismissing such a recount, Frazer told Kenyans that they shouldn t expect their vote to be tallied accurately, and that power can be seized or perhaps even negotiated in a backroom.

However, when it comes to such complex problems as organizational restructuring, staff reassignment, ethics mainstreaming and attitude change, the managers of the reform programmes have had to brace themselves and all the stakeholders for hard choices.

Perhaps not by financiers and economists, but others who were watching how markets were developing often with dismay were more than worried.

None of this means that men and women should not try to adjust to each other's wishes, ask for shared responsibility with housework, or expect to be heard.

They recognize from their own relative marginalization of people of color or of immigrants that no French, German, Italian, or British Obama is on the horizon, and they wonder how does America do it?

Sony BMG Mexico also released a statement saying it was not Alizée's fault, that it was the store who had problems with the security, and that they did not expect so many people in attendance fences had been broken and children were in danger.

The problem of moral hazard which posits that actors will take excessive risks if they do not expect to bear fully the consequences of their actions is commonly cited as a reason not to protect shareholders of bailed out firms.

By measuring their student smiles, researchers were able to predict how fulfilling and long lasting a subject's marriage will be, how well she would score on standardized tests of well being and how inspiring she would be to others.

In theory, bank lenders and the government could anticipate the additional risks they encounter when a company chooses a high leverage strategy. Lenders may charge higher interest rates, and the government may charge higher taxes or fees.

Among those who are involved in the practice of informing others of facts about what is happening, it has become a common expectation to get summoned by the security or kidnapped or banned from travel or to have your office raided, or receive a call from someone politely threatening you.

Those who fail to accept this responsibility should expect the international community to act with firmness and bring into force the individual measures envisaged in Security Council resolution 1572 (2004), which remains an important part of the international community's strategy for advancing the peace process.

In particular, they should be able to expect to be better off than those rushing to the exit. This approach depends on two major policy shifts.

High wage workers in rich countries can expect to see their competitive advantage steadily eroded by competition from capable and fiercely hard working competitors in Asia, Latin America, and maybe even some day Africa.

China s leaders should take advantage of this respite from instability and low confidence to redouble their reform efforts. Otherwise, they can expect alarm bells to begin ringing again and, next time, they may not have the tools they need to silence them.

Years of sensitive educational outreach have finally made it the norm for American children to understand that their bodies are their own, that adults should not touch them intimately or in ways that make them uncomfortable, and that they can expect to be protected from such violation.

Those who might choose to shirk this responsibility should expect the international community to take firm action and bring into force the individual measures envisaged in Security Council resolution 1572 (2004) of 15 November 2004, which remain an essential part of the international strategy to support the peace process.

Others strain to produce complicated models, according to which investors might have been able to foresee the Depression, or ponder the likelihood of protectionist reactions in other countries to the American tariff act, though the US legislation had not yet even been finalized.

TUBINGEN Many say that the world financial crisis could not have been foreseen. Perhaps not by financiers and economists, but others who were watching how markets were developing often with dismay were more than worried.

Shouldn t they expect to face risk? Yet a critical moment in the crisis came when, shortly after the mid September 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers, a money market fund broke the buck and couldn t pay 100 cents on the dollar.