"The vagaries of today's weather appear to be getting ever worse or more unpredictable, so people are wanting ever more information and analysis, " says Mr Herbert.
Although people can paint logical pictures of their career paths in retrospect, in reality most careers are unpredictable influenced by particular people, seminal moments, or unique opportunities.
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Are there recent elections which demonstrate that people are inherently unpredictable in their electoral choices?
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Follow-up versions of the study showed that this antipathy was not because of a sense that the selfless person was incompetent or unpredictable two kinds of people psychologists know are disliked in this sort of game.
Much of the proliferating comic energy of this 19-person play about a slightly cracked Depression-era family arises from the fact that the stage is packed with people who are doing unpredictable things to and with one another.
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People within the corporation find the trust unpredictable, suspecting that it is driven by pressure from hostile newspapers.
The lesson of Building 20 is that when the composition of the group is right enough people with different perspectives running into one another in unpredictable ways the group dynamic will take care of itself.
North Korea's unexpected test-firing of a rocket into the Pacific in August 1998 made many people shiver at the thought of what an explosively unpredictable regime like North Korea's (or Iraq's, or Libya's) might do with an armoury of long-range missiles.
Once people feel uneasy under great duress, their behavior becomes unpredictable.
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The greatest concern had to do with people getting too close to fast-moving, deceptive and unpredictable floodwaters.
Health Secretary Frank Dobson called the situation "unpredictable" but said he hoped the row in the Tory Party over public spending would remind people of what the Conservatives were like in government.
So that is in essence holding a gun to the head of the American people because make no mistake, the specific consequences of default may be unknowable or unpredictable, but we know they will be seriously negative and they will impact -- they will have an impact directly on the American people.
One reason that people view that kind of behavior unsettling is because we view the highly charged person as unpredictable, especially if we do not know the individual well, disagree with them, or view them with ambiguity.
But since the most vulnerable people are those in poor countries, they too have to be helped to adapt to rising seas and unpredictable storms.
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