Well, that means we should "reform the food-stamp program" (not a bad idea, but so predictable).
Master marketer and promoter that he is, Ailes would never be so predictable and dull.
Since when is the human body, bacteria, viruses, and the immune system so predictable?
What makes this Spurs revival special is that it wasn't so predictable.
He was so predictable you could set your watch by his actions.
It made him feel foolish to be so predictable, so reproducible.
It's nice that the world is so predictable sometimes, isn't it?
Yet it looked so predictable when the home side went in front after four minutes, skipper Sinfield carving out an opening for Clarkson to score the game's first try.
In fact, so predictable are boomers on this topic that, in a study done seven years ago, Xenia Montenegro, senior research adviser for the AARP, looked so hard at divorce in people over 50, she darn near "Nostradamused" that Shriver and Schwarzenegger, et. al, were headed for a split.
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But their behavior has become so carefully predictable that the fundamental choice whether to buy at all is gradually vanishing.
But the rise must be gradual and predictable so that economies can adjust.
It is all pretty ritualistic and predictable so, in an attempt to liven things up, a couple of backbenchers are given their chance to shine - or otherwise - with brief speeches.
But modern America has become a place so drearily confining and predictable that it chokes the life out of that built-in desire.
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He said it was important that children went to bed at a predictable time so that their bodies got used to a regular routine.
The U.S. is struggling to do so militarily, evoking predictable resentment.
When lots of similar receivables are bundled together in an asset-backed security, the average rates of default, late payment and pre-payment are predictable, so both issuers and investors can be relatively confident of their ability to value the security properly.
They all failed spectacularly, but what is interesting is they did so in the same, predictable way.
The opinions of this customs collector so far had been as predictable as his waistcoat buttons, if less interesting.
Are there ways that businesses can help part-time workers to pursue higher education, perhaps by providing access to health benefits or by offering more predictable working hours so that would-be students can more easily schedule their classes?
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Doing so delivers a level of predictable income, rather than relying on what the market does, for investors that typically have about two-thirds of their portfolio in bonds and are looking for cash flow from their equity slice, Genter says.
Once a golfer starts a round, the statistics by which all comparisons are made will be within fixed parameters except for the outcome, because each round of the tournament, each hole on the course, follows a predictable layout, so to speak.
The way we were taught to think and act works well when the future is predictable, but not so much in the world as it is now.
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Raising the petrol tax is political poison, so Congress has hit upon a drearily predictable solution: to take the money from somewhere else.
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So, Yacktman will opt for a more predictable business than a bright star that might fade soon.
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But central bankers cannot afford to be predictable when intervening in currency markets, for to do so is to offer speculators a one-way bet.
So you can piece those together in a way that would generate a predictable paycheck.
So consider now what happens when you toss these unknowns into fixed, predictable business processes.
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