We like things to be predictable, it gives us a sense of safety and security.
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The OVDP is designed to be predictable and that is one of its great features.
Profits should show up in cash flow, earnings should be predictable, and management needs to be owner-oriented.
The result would be predictable: An inexorable intensification of the threat to America, its people and their way of life.
Even Alan Greenspan, the doyen of central bankers and who takes pride in bewildering his audiences, seeks to be predictable in this sense.
He refused to be predictable, just as he refused to be influenced for more than a painting or two, at least by any other artist.
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But central bankers cannot afford to be predictable when intervening in currency markets, for to do so is to offer speculators a one-way bet.
Perhaps not surprisingly, it proves to be predictable in the extreme.
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In monetary policy, many central bankers do seek to be predictable.
The key turns out to be predictable given that it is sequentially issued and constructed from the passport expiry date, birth date, passport number, and checksum.
The governments tried to be predictable in their succession plan for Mr Duisenberg, ordaining that, halfway through his eight-year term, he would resign in favour of Jean-Claude Trichet of the Banque de France.
The film was always going to be predictable (that is part of its appeal), yet it feels too panicky to be stylish, and surprisingly tasteless: who could have foreseen that its humor would rely on a gastric gross-out?
The other reasons why people invest in bonds, which is diversification, to dampen volatility, sure, you get that, when you invest in individual bonds or a bond fund, but the thing about the individual bond that the bond fund lacks is that ability to be predictable.
If receptions and passing touchdowns are scored higher in your league, the score will be more predictable because QBs and recievers will be weighted more heavily.
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Master marketer and promoter that he is, Ailes would never be so predictable and dull.
Some leave for jobs as counsel to corporations, where hours can be more predictable.
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The new test will be less predictable and include verbal reasoning, numerical and visual communication parts.
But public attitudes to parliamentary reform may be less predictable than some Labourites hope.
Although the losses that banks face in their loan books are ugly, they should be more predictable.
Econometric studies, they say, suggest that monetary policy would be more predictable and easier to run with a small group.
The world seems to be less predictable these days, with political and social unrest, a slowly recovering economy and a changing climate.
Perhaps, though, it would be as well to put politics aside and return to economics, which is supposed to be more predictable.
Since the time and money needed for a deposition can be relatively predictable, says Ms Hackett, the client can decide how many are needed.
It made him feel foolish to be so predictable, so reproducible.
It would all be so predictable if it weren't for the turmoil surrounding President Bill Clinton's admitted sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky and the resulting House impeachment inquiry chaired by Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Illinois).
The biggest risk in many of the current batch of deals is that the private-equity firms discover the cash-flow models to be less predictable than they thought, says Colin Blaydon of Tuck Business School's Centre for the Study of Private Equity and Entrepreneurship.
Typically, one series of cash flows would be considered the fixed leg of the agreement while the other would be less predictable, such as cash flows based on an interest rate benchmark or a foreign exchange rate, usually referred to as the floating leg.
The session closed with unanimous agreement that support for education must be long-term sustainable and predictable and must be mobilised both from a wide range of national and international sources.
The business, says Lando, used to be staid and predictable, consisting of lawyers writing licensing deals.
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