Businesses need a sense of consistency and predictability to allow them to plan hires.
But a certain degree of restraint and predictability has often served the Court well.
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And as for a weakening of the stability and predictability in American policymaking?
It also logically follows that student graduation would be encouraged by the low-cost and predictability of a tuition freeze.
For institutional investors who crave certainty and predictability, these are challenging times.
Consistency and predictability not only provide intangible psychological benefits, but they also make it easier for investors to plan for their future.
Former Lib Dem care services minister Paul Burstow said existing means-testing arrangements were unduly "harsh" and the changes would provide greater "fairness and predictability".
For the solar energy industry to truly mature, it needs a performance model that can offer investors confidence and predictability in their return on investment.
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The most significant changes had occurred in the '60s, when the English group Archigram took perfect aim at the permanence and predictability of accepted architectural norms.
At the very least, the efficiencies created by the greater stability and predictability will release human capital currently devoted to arbitraging the instability of government monopoly currency.
Ultimately, the CARD Act brought transparency and predictability to the credit card marketplace during its first year, and we can expect more of the same during its second.
But the Christmas cycle imposes a deadening routine and predictability.
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But, how we make these choices is just as important to creating the stability and predictability that can put our nation on a sustainable path to long-term fiscal responsibility and economic prosperity.
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And yet, this company, the model of stability and predictability now had suddenly has had two of its last CEOs removed, and brought Lafley back out of retirement to run the company again.
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"The new agreement will mutually enhance the security of the parties and predictability and stability in strategic offensive forces, and will include effective verification measures drawn from the experience of the parties in implementing the START Treaty, " the statement said.
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With Windows Embedded 8, enterprises can harness Windows 8 technologies with additional features to support industry devices within intelligent systems - including rich, natural experiences that provide customers and employees with access to the information they are looking for while ensuring the consistency and predictability businesses require.
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More broadly, the downgrade reflects our view that the effectiveness, stability, and predictability of American policymaking and political institutions have weakened at a time of ongoing fiscal and economic challenges to a degree more than we envisioned when we assigned a negative outlook to the rating on April 18, 2011.
Although the nature of human creativity does not allow us to predict exactly what will come out of the privatization of currency, it is only logical to conclude that the increased stability and predictability of private currencies will also allow the development of value-creating endeavors that otherwise would not be feasible.
The House has introduced legislation and held a hearing in the new congressional session to find a solution that would continue the federal operation of the reserve beyond this point, ensuring stability and predictability in the helium market for a short, finite time until known plants in development start operation.
And as I look at what's going on in my state and among my constituents -- I visited with a constituent yesterday, good Democrat, small business owner, who was extremely frustrated -- extremely frustrated because there was a lack of certainty and predictability from his government for him to be able to run his businesses.
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Even when the economy and IT spending are down, companies still keep spending on BI, because it helps provide data-driven clarity and some predictability in market trends, and therefore quickly pays for itself.
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And no predictability for Internet service providers, so that they can effectively manage and invest in broadband networks.
The way that we view the world is that bonds are extremely good at protecting principal and delivering predictability.
But the good new is that it gains long-term revenue and greater predictability.
The first is far greater emphasis on clean governance, transparency and legal predictability.
Finally, snapshot-based historical analysis is on top of the list for sales organization that want to understand pipeline movement and increase predictability.
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England formed a guard of honour in tribute to the retiring Kiwi skipper, and Fleming made the most of some wayward bowling and the predictability of the pitch to dominate the session.
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These two aspects having an unknown range of responses, and unknown predictability in getting a response of any kind at all is what separates a collaborative or community activity from a process oriented one.
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However, the authors of the DHI's academic paper say the independence debate is "an unwelcome note of uncertainty for the oil and gas industry", at a time when it thinks it has finally got an understanding in Whitehall of the need for tax and regulatory predictability.
In that connection, the Center is convinced that the executive and legislative branches must give serious consideration to measures that would enhance the predictability and stability of defense expenditures.
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