The rapid and unpredictable changes in prices give opportunity for speculative profits, but most legitimate business is injured.
The best average results for justice and social welfare will be secured by measuring debts in goods that change least often, least rapidly, and in the least unpredictable manner.
They regard hackers as unpredictable people, bright and slippery.
The frequent and unpredictable changes have been a great evil, and have again and again brought unmerited losses to the many in business and still greater and unearned gains to a favored few.
The rapid and unpredictable changes in prices gives opportunity for speculative profits, but injure legitimate business.
But the grand generalizations of science originate in just such an unpredictable original vision.
Ku throughout the universe--a fear engendered chiefly by the man's unpredictable comings and goings, thanks to his secret hiding place.
Still other atomic scientists have said that H-bomb explosions might even knock a large chunk out of the earth, with unpredictable results.
I didn't want to believe it, with all the changes it might bring, the unpredictable effect upon our civilization.
The signal will almost certainly come in from an unpredictable direction, from a ship so far away that even a super-fast cruiser could not get close enough to her to detect--just a minute.
Rufus Isaacs' son speaks of the certain ruin of his father's career if "by some unpredictable misadventure" the motion had been carried.
Some of these ideas didn't seem quite logical; a number of them were complete reversals of present trends, and a lot seemed to depend on arbitrary and unpredictable factors.
But, as I said, a lot of this stuff is based on unpredictable and arbitrary factors that can't be inferred from anything in the present.
It is probably more in respect to the unknown and unpredictable that mediation, via priests and shamans in various rituals, was used in forms of magical practice.
It is not clear whether one burns more calories today in jogging than in working, but it is clear that discipline, in particular that of self-denial, is replaced by unpredictable self-indulgence.
The hypothetical deflection alleged by Epikurus was his way, not more unwarranted than the others, of providing a fundamental principle for the unpredictable phenomena of the universe.
The broadcast said that the wave-type produced unpredictable surges of current.
This wave-type produced unpredictable surges of power in the transmitter, wherefore at least six transmitters should be built and linked together so that if one ceased operation another would instantly take up the task.
Most Tidewater planters did not realize fully what was happening to them, presuming at first that they were just in another swing of the unpredictable tobacco business cycle, and were not caught in a situation which would be permanent.
Like her migraine, anunpredictable storm was coming upon her.
It seemed to her that everything was smote in jilts of unpredictable existence, and love itself was no guarantee of anything.
She was an elusive creature, asunpredictable as a butterfly.
It was an archaic ceremony, utterly irrational, a foolish relic of a primitive world in which people had been so uncertain of their machines that they had had to depend on luck, and to beg good fortune of unpredictable gods.
The Nautilus slowed down in an odd manner, and very unpredictable in its ways, it sometimes swam in the midst of the waters, sometimes drifted on their surface.
And how many times I shared the excitement of general staff and crew when some unpredictable whale lifted its blackish back above the waves.
Sometimes an unpredictable irregularity in the seafloor would force the Nautilus to slow down, and then it would glide into the narrow channels between the hills with a cetacean's dexterity.
And the other that weather, that practically unpredictable feature of the Southwest Pacific, was closing down.
Blessed if you're not as unpredictable as one of Hitler's speeches.
There's nothing on this earth as unpredictable as a forest fire.
Mrs. Grove explained again Mina Raff's unpredictable qualities, and he spoke of Peyton and Claire Morris.
The fundamental calamity was too close for any grasp of its tragic proportions: Savina dead was far more a set of unpredictable consequences than a personality.
One of his utterlyunpredictable surprises recurs often to my recollection.
Palus lunged just as Murmex made a brilliantly unpredictable shift of his position.
Rather, the natural world was welcomed as a joyous if unpredictable companion to life, whose beauty alone was sufficient to inspire love.
The "authorities" were and are always perceived to be a brutal, menacing and unpredictable presence, a natural power, to be resisted by the equal employment of cunning and corruption.
