While Steve Jobs is certainly capable of being peevish and capricious, his criticisms have the ring of truth.
For Palin, the choice to stay in office until July 26 seems capricious, Culp notes.
The more complex the tax code, the more arbitrary and capricious enforcement is sure to be.
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"I love a great unreliable narrator, " said Ms. Flynn, whose twisted novel alternates between two capricious narrators.
If that seems capricious, consider the alternative: anyone could hang out a shingle and declare themselves an expert.
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Earlier this month, the court describe the measure as "arbitrary and capricious", after industry groups sued the city.
Hard to be phlegmatic when the cards are stacked and the capricious gods are pissed and feeling vindictive.
It had taken him years to wring the human element and its capricious whims out of his operation.
Excessively risk-averse, capricious and at times even hostile FDA regulation has made drug development extraordinarily difficult in recent years.
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Mr. Menzel's "Capricious Summer" (1968) fuses comedy and social commentary in a toothsome admixture set in the Bohemian countryside.
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The Chinese believe that the year of the monkey is capricious and unpredictable.
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Catherine captivates Jules and Jim with her capricious nature, and neither has the strength or the authority to contain her.
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Still, they appear capricious, raising their target after a period of strong stockmarket returns and lowering it during the lean years.
The courts are slow and capricious, so contracts are hard to enforce.
Business figures accused the government of a capricious approach to executive pay.
It tells of a strange child's forlorn travels through the universe after quitting his native planet, B-612, to escape a vain, capricious rose.
In January India's Supreme Court sided with Vodafone in a ruling that many hoped would bring stability to India's capricious treatment of foreign investors.
That will make it harder for candidates to buy their way into office, and should ensure that the most capricious and incompetent ones eventually get weeded out.
But it also hints at the capricious Mr Hussein's power to cripple the Kurdish economy overnight, should he decide to flood it by releasing billions of Swiss dinars.
Since Jobs would never allow anyone as capricious, autocratic, and stubborn as himself anywhere near the seat of power at Apple, his principal executives have molded themselves to him.
He said current laws had resulted in "inconsistent, illogical and capricious" distinctions between types of events and regulation should be required only where it was needed to keep events safe.
But the attack on Yukos, the best-run and most western-looking of Russian companies, was the worst cure of all: capricious, selective and motivated by politics not the rule of law.
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Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused them as "behaving like capricious little children" for failing to agree on a location for the talks, which had been due to take place this month.
It may need some help from outsiders with marketing and product placement, but diversification probably makes more sense than just sticking with a capricious federal customer as the walls close in.
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Their leader, Jessie Lee (Mario Van Peebles), fights in a black Army unit in the Spanish-American War until a cruel, capricious white officer (Billy Zane) pushes him to the breaking point.
Indeed, the NSC has shown irresponsible disinterest in the whole matter of technology security, enormously compounding the risks of capricious decontrol actions -- and increasing the likelihood that they will occur.
" "Methodological rigor, " he claims, was their hallmark, even as he acknowledges that "all of our diagnoses are now based on subjective judgments that are inherently fallible and prey to capricious change.
Mohsen doesn't remember much from that period, but he's certain that his happiness was complete, that no one challenged his outbursts of laughter or condemned him for being a spoiled, capricious child.
Within minutes, the back of the circuit was soaking, while it remained dry in the vicinity of the pits - not an unusual situation at a track renowned for its capricious weather.
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