1.   Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka this morning said an interest rate increase in the U.S. should be expected given the strong growth of the American economy.

2.   In a nationally broadcast speech, President Nelson Mandela said difficulties were to be expected given the scope of the first-time exercise.

3.   Japanese automakers stole bits of market share, but not as much as some expected given the weak value of the yen, which makes imports cheaper to Americans.

4.   Rivlin said, however, that wages may not rise quite as rapidly as would be expected given the demand for labor and the relatively constrained supply of workers.

5.   That is double earlier estimates and considerably less conservative than might be expected given the trickiness in estimating these kinds of liabilities, says Simpson, the Best executive.

6.   At least one player said the team was flat, which perhaps was to be expected given the many big games Oklahoma has played.

7.   But he said that while a sales decline might be expected given the furor over the recall, there were no signs that was happening.

8.   In a nationally broadcast speech Tuesday, President Nelson Mandela said difficulties were to be expected given the scope of the first-time exercise.

9.   It also was expected given the bad economic and corporate news the market has been hearing for months.

10.   Meetings of Arab foreign ministers often set up summits of Arab leaders, but no such result is expected Sunday given divisions over Iraq.