Some insiders expect him to abandon his namesake label and start a company with executives who defected from Warner Brothers.

The price was higher than some insiders had expected, although for a buyer able to use the space the price was considered highly favorable.

Employers know that 'insiders' will not co-operate with any undercutting 'outsiders'if they employ them, while on the other side of the market would-be undercutting outsiders can expect to be 'harassed'by insiders if they are successful in gaining employment.

The insiders had not originally expected to do that well from the offering.

Most insiders expected UAL to turn to an outsider - much as it had chosen Mr. Greenwald, a former Chrysler vice chairman, in 1994 - for its next boss.

While few insiders expect major changes to Mr. Bush's big tax cuts until after the 2008 election, the subject of increasing some taxes, or scaling back past tax cuts, may end up on the table next year.

With the exception of a $10 million request for 19 law firms representing individual shareholders, legal insiders expect Judge Schwartzberg to approve most of the requests without controversy.

Some political insiders expected the Cabinet to attach one more condition: the start of construction of a new Jewish neighborhood at Har Homa, in the vacant hills of southeastern Jerusalem.

If Trammell intended to gain fat institutional clients from industry megaliths like CB Richard Ellis, his former employer, some insiders expected a higher-profile leader than the mild-mannered Mr. Bernstein.

Political insiders in Tennessee expected the inner circle of a Thompson campaign to include, in addition to his politically experienced wife, a number of functionaries with whom Thompson has been associated in the past.