Both benefit from a more predictable international security environment.
Pence's old team, Houston, has had a more predictable season.
Atlanta Country Club presents a more predictable challenge and, like most PGA Championships, it will, in all likelihood, produce a more predictable winner.
On paper, this would do much to make Russia a more predictable place to do business.
The trend threatens large incumbent tech companies that grew up in a more predictable world.
Yet Mr Georgescu is betting that advertising is becoming a more predictable and measurable business.
When she graduated from Harvard in 2003, she embarked on a more predictable career path.
The shrimp cocktail was a more predictable opener but it, too, was better than the norm.
The new rules, he said, will produce a "more predictable, no-surprises kind of development".
Milan blamed an unexpected growth spurt plus a more predictable loss of focus.
But it may also prove to be a more predictable and pragmatic course.
