11.  Raising them usually slows the economy in a more or less predictable way.

12.  Technical analysis is based on the notion that the past repeats itself in predictable ways.

13.  The circulatory system can be dissected, imaged, measured, operated on, and altered by drugs in relatively predictable ways.

14.  The landscape will slowly change, of course, in certain predictable ways.

15.  The huge contrasts among Islamic nations show up in their art, not necessarily in predictable ways.

16.  To compete against entertainment conglomerates like Disney, Broadway production companies have to get bigger and adopt a more coordinated, predictable way of doing business, Wilkin said.