The study found that levels of inmate-on-inmate violence were unchanged, and that levels of inmate-on-staff violence changed unpredictably, rising in Arizona, falling in Illinois, and holding steady in Minnesota.

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Tim Minchin's riotously eclectic score skitters unpredictably from pop to jazz to semi-Sondheim to good old-fashioned razzmatazz.

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Right now, the critical barriers to entry for an entrepreneur with a disruptive idea (read: technology which may scale exponentially and unpredictably) are gaining access to low-cost, efficient infrastructure, implementing extremely complex software to maximize compute power and storage, and minimizing maintenance concerns.

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It also offers plenty of opportunities to bone up on your knowledge of wickets (the three upright sticks the bowler has to hit with the ball to dismiss the batsman), googlies (unpredictably spinning balls), slip-fielding positions (fielders positioned close to the batsman) and ducks (batsmen that get out without scoring).

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Indeed, its concern about future threats from unpredictably violent countries and people who are attempting to acquire long-range missiles is naturally going to intensify.

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Some shops still sell battery-operated analogs, but who wants to worry about batteries conking out unpredictably, with they tend to do.

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Making the investment case for the extra kit and platform upgrades required to squeeze the remaining billions of barrels out of sub-sea reservoirs is harder to do when tax is not only high but rising unpredictably, and when there are so many other investment options around the world.

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