The problem for baseball over the long term is that the strikeout is the one offensive event that hardly ever sets into motion an unpredictable result.

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On one side is the security perspective: the new technology is unproven, unpredictable and could result in an expensive failure.

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Shorn of its own candidate, the governing coalition would split between the two, reckons Gaudencio Torquato, professor of politics at Sao Paulo University, making the final result unpredictable.

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In addition to the fatigue testing, the lab does modal analysis, to evaluate what will happen to the blades as a result of unpredictable wind gusts.

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There is a dangerous, unpredictable mood in Italy and the election result remains uncertain.

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At the Detroit Big Three plant, the time was fixed, but the result of training was variable and unpredictable.

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Despite "Second Life's" waning popularity as a destination for businesses--partly a result of virtual vandalism and other unpredictable behavior by the world's more eccentric inhabitants--she insists that private virtual worlds like Forterra's can offer many of the same advantages without the risks to security and productivity.

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They want to do this thing differently at whatever time at unpredictable cost to see if there happens to be a good result.

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