21.   And a corporate executive whose business fails to meet expectations in profit and productivity will soon find the lock changed on his office door.

22.   And in talking to Abrahams, the expectation is met.

23.   And it was before companies started to acknowledge, as Northern Telecom did last week, that sales on the continent would likely not meet expectations.

24.   And Olive Garden, the Italian food chain, failed to meet profit expectations in the last year.

25.   And so it is no surprise that the top-rated funds do not meet expectations.

26.   Andover, Mass.-based PictureTel Corp. says a new videoconferencing product is meeting expectations and has put the company on track to become profitable again.

27.   As always with Midler, she meets expectations of humor, warmth, quirkiness and innuendo in her song selections.

28.   As a game machine, though, the PC Theatre meets expectations.

29.   Arcadia said credit quality trends and loan loss recoveries are meeting its expectations.

30.   Artificial intelligence concepts could produce an excellent chess-playing computer or credit-card checker, but failed to meet expectations in more demanding applications.