Moreover, to put such a question off-limits is arbitrary.
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The name-out-of-a-hat approach might seem rather arbitrary for something so important.
The second reason is that if you can track the success of advertising, especially if you can follow sales leads, then marketing ceases to be just a cost-centre, with an arbitrary budget allocated to it.
There was a time when I might have speculated on the cause but then I learned that rather than continuously update my priors I should instead consider every piece of evidence in isolation and adhere strictly to the absolutely non-arbitrary standard of a 95% confidence interval.
Tomosynthesis is a three-dimensional imaging technique that provides an arbitrary set of reconstructed images of the breast.
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Charles Dickens, for example, or Bob Dylan, who is represented by a list of twenty-seven quotations that will seem, to anyone who is a Dylan listener, hopelessly arbitrary.
Hours after a judge struck down the 16-ounce size limit for sodas and some other sweet drinks as arbitrary and outside city health regulators' purview, Bloomberg defended it as a groundbreaking anti-obesity effort and all but challenged businesses to comply out of concern for their customers.
The quest to remake teachers' annual performance grades began in 2010, when the state passed a law requiring districts to jettison systems that allowed principals to judge teachers on a simple up-or-down system that critics considered arbitrary and all but useless.
Typically, when believers talk about previous secular bear markets, they measure using the Dow (a faulty, price-weighted index which makes returns fairly arbitrary and not reflective of economic reality), or they measure the Dow without dividends reinvested (which is really stretching reality).
It's not clear at this point why a year-old system is being stifled by this seemingly arbitrary restriction, but with the PlayStation 3 offering developers Bluetooth out of the box, it seems that Microsoft either needs to change its tune or risk losing the small-but-vocal "rocker wannabe" demographic to the enemy.
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It's an arbitrary assumption--who knows what turns a person's career might have taken?
ExxonMobil earlier in the decade had won a key battle against Russian oil companies by obtaining a production-sharing agreement, which gave it more protection against arbitrary tax increases.
But first he wants to replace the current centralised but arbitrary arrangements for funding federal universities with a British-style system, in which each manages its own finances but is funded according to a standard formula tied to the number of students on each type of course.
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The vulnerability exists when MSXML attempts to access an object in memory that has not been initialized, which may corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the logged-on user.
And its much-criticized arbitrary song limit and slow USB connections can be worked around with a USB 2.0 card reader and Motorola's music application on the phone.
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