And blackmail usually works better when the practitioners are seen as irrational and unpredictable.
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But the law is, at best, a blunt and unpredictable instrument for disciplining bosses.
We live and lead in a world of imperfect information, guaranteed surprises, and unpredictable occurrences.
Clearly, it is not as potent and unpredictable a force as it was in 2010.
Facebook can addict us the way a slot machine might, with intermittent and unpredictable rewards.
Confronting a stalker can can be dangerous since stalkers are likely to be irrational and unpredictable.
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It must be noted, however, that selling golf clubs is a mysterious and unpredictable business.
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Still, these are tense and unpredictable times in trade relations between the two countries.
Since writedowns are supposed to be sudden and unpredictable, the analysts make no effort to forecast them.
The greatest concern had to do with people getting too close to fast-moving, deceptive and unpredictable floodwaters.
Like any risk factor, the impact of inflation is more complex and unpredictable than you might expect.
To the neutral observer, the series, bringing together two well-matched teams, is an intriguing and unpredictable prospect.
All of these excuses sound viable, but the problem is we are facing increasingly difficult and unpredictable threats.
But even ambiguity doesn't quite capture the Clinton policy, which is, even more than ambiguous, uncertain and unpredictable.
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Yet most entrepreneurs work hard, as do farmers, while facing enormous and unpredictable risks, only less based on weather.
The longer the Conclave continues the more open and unpredictable it will become.
As Hew Strachan of Oxford University puts it, America's experience in Vietnam had made war seem messy and unpredictable.
Yellow-jackets hung around, cranky and unpredictable, and we walked on the other side.
At the Detroit Big Three plant, the time was fixed, but the result of training was variable and unpredictable.
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Teams that embrace the color orange are usually a little crazy and unpredictable.
The Chinese believe that the year of the monkey is capricious and unpredictable.
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She acknowledges that she has to be better at appreciating Greg's difficulties in juggling both child care and unpredictable work.
Pre-payment allows customers with variable and unpredictable incomes to pay what they can, when they can, for an essential service.
Sometimes whispering, Miss Stobbart described how Moat had a "Jekyll and Hyde split personality" and could be violent and unpredictable.
"I wasn't going to leave something that was working for the rough and unpredictable waters of network television, " he says.
Our entire economy, as unwieldy and unpredictable as it is, comes from nothing more than the exchange of goods and services.
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Flighty, manic and unpredictable, Parker grates on investors--he's been jettisoned from the three companies he helped create, soon after they lifted off.
The consequences of defaulting on our obligations for the first time in the history of this country would be serious and unpredictable.
The market was so wild and unpredictable that producers routinely lost everything.
But her music is more layered and unpredictable than traditional folk singers.
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