• Business figures accused the government of a capricious approach to executive pay.

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  • 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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  • In calm and workaday Lisbon, Pilar (Teresa Madruga), a lonely, low-key, middle-aged social activist, gently pursued by a gentleman artist, finds her elderly neighbor, Aurora (Laura Soveral), a capricious faded beauty, in decline and struggling under the loving care of a home attendant.

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  • While EU nations have made a great progress in pulling their resources together, they do remain a collection of capricious brides that find hard to lead a common life, a situation that can turn worse as European economies face a full-blown recession.

    FORBES: EU: A Collection of Capricious Brides

  • 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.

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  • The future of the Kaesong Industrial Complex in North Korea, a joint venture between southern capital and northern labour, is in doubt following a series of capricious demands by Pyongyang.

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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.

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  • 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.

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  • Even though Kirchner has expressed strong support for national industry (which also benefited from the countryb s economic growth), it is pretty obvious that the private sector knows that its power can be curtailed by a random and capricious president.

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  • 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.

    BBC: Hamilton stripped of Belgian win

  • Arbitrary, capricious government is a major reason that Argentina has a lagging, perennially troubled economy and that it's no longer one of the richest nations in the world, as it was 100 years ago.

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  • "What it made me realize was how vulnerable all black men are, how vulnerable all people of color are, and all poor people, to capricious forces like a rogue policeman, and this man clearly was a rogue policeman, " Gates said.

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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.

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  • After its authoritarian and capricious president, Alexander Lukashenka, won a crushing victory in a rigged election last year, there seemed little hope for change in Europe's least democratic country.

    ECONOMIST: Belarus

  • 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.

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  • If that seems capricious, consider the alternative: anyone could hang out a shingle and declare themselves an expert.

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  • 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.

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  • The methodology is arbitrary, capricious, utterly unrepresentative of economic reality, and it creates a cloud of uncertainty that essentially deters U.S. importers from purchasing Chinese products that could potentially be targeted by U.S. industries.

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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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  • Jackson portrays the holy man, Reuben, as near-saintly and a good listener, until he unexpectedly whacks Katie with his huge walking stick for her capricious ways.

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  • "I love a great unreliable narrator, " said Ms. Flynn, whose twisted novel alternates between two capricious narrators.

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