Planners expect 40,000 people from more than 60 countries to attend.

And perhaps most important, find out how the planner expects to be paid.

Planners expect it to last anywhere from six to nine months.

Planners expect the park to be largely completed within a year.

Instead of a long war, planners now expected a short devastating attack on major cities.

Planners expect it to draw some 250,000 visitors a year.

The planners had expected the computer system to be trickier.

Planners expect the route to serve more than 160,000 passengers daily.

In 2007, economic planners expect China's already small budget deficit to shrink again.

Oil revenues are now estimated to be $2.5 billion below the level planners had expected, according to Government officials and private economic analysts here.