In a volatile atmosphere like the present you should think of capital structure as a variable that can greatly influence the success or failure of a business enterprise.
Repaying debt has become more difficult in part because loan balances have grown and the interest rates on federal loans have increased as a result of a shift from variable-rate to fixed-rate loans.
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That was identified as a "vulnerable" variable in the project when the outage began in March 2012.
Including a "dead" variable is important as it is a vital link in the food chain.
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Many view MetLife as primarily a life insurance company selling a variety of products such as variable, universal, whole and term life insurance policies.
Interestingly, the SEC just announced the increasing use of alternative and hedge fund strategies by mutual funds, ETFs and variable annuities as a new and emerging risk.
Also, your vehicle can upload its position to road authorities, so they can use variable road tolls as a traffic management tool -- raising the price on busy stretches during rush hours.
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Bottom line, the budgetary rules treating growth as a given instead of the all important variable for achieving budget balance have both sides of the aisle ignoring the most important question: What policy changes would achieve a sustained period of 4% growth?
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In the future we are likely to see a variable annuity mini-boom as manufacturers and distributors of the products continue to offer lifetime benefit guarantees.
The unions say their case is based on years of low pay increases - highlighted, they point out, by the prime minister among others, and used as a prominent argument to get through legislation on variable tuition fees.
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The price of Wheaties is not enough of a shared experience, and too variable due to all sorts of extraneous factors, to be used as a benchmark for anything.
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MalariaControl.net can handle a lot of different sorts of variable, from the changing density of parasites within a human host as an infection progresses to the sort of treatment available in different places around the continent.
As a rule of thumb, you can control one variable in your business: you.
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In a recent survey, this variable ranked as the most important factor to LPs when conducting due diligence.
The fact of the matter is that you can at once believe that socioeconomic factors and other input-level factors are hugely determinative of student outcomes, and that we should be cognizant of that fact when considering teacher quality, AND that education quality is a meaningful variable in arriving at student outcomes, and we should continue to subsidize public education as a society.
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But as Australia A began to lose second-innings wickets, variable bounce was becoming a factor.
As part of the compromise, up to a quarter of variable pay can be issued in instruments deferred for more than five years.
Moreover, insurance companies are set to unleash an onslaught of flexible annuity products, such as Lincoln Financial's i4Life plan, which is a variable annuity that hedges against inflation, puts a floor under income payments and provides a death benefit if your die before 85.
So annuity sellers began aggressively pushing a solution last year, based on a narrow new IRS ruling they took as a green light: The trustee invests all of the trust in variable annuities.
Yes, says Strathclyde's Mr Hughes Hallett, but the stock of existing home loans (as opposed to the flow of new ones) is still mostly at a variable rate.
With smaller auctions comes the opportunity to reduce variable costs such as catalogues and marketing, where there is still a lot of fat.
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For example, rather than purchase expensive ultra-efficient motors, low cost opportunistic additions to old fans and pumps such as variable frequency drives and demand controls can deliver equal energy savings at a fraction of the cost.
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So, cutting the fixed costs of reaching customers, as Apple is negotiating to do, and increasing the variable component, seems like a sensible move.
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Mutual funds now find themselves in a redemption phase as do hedge funds and insurance underwriters who are major players in variable annuities, guaranteed investment contracts and mutual funds.
But you fail to mention the most important one of all: that a central bank of any country which has only variable access to international capital markets may have a problem in acting as a lender of last resort to its banking system.
Other bullet points for the 2014 Vanquish include an additional 55 horsepower (565 hp at 6, 750 rpm) and 37 pound-feet more torque (457 pound-feet at 5, 500 rpm) over the DBS. Aston's all-alloy 5.9-liter, mid-front-mounted V12 gets a sprucing up with variable timing on both intake and exhaust sides, as well as freer-breathing intake geometry.
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But that doesn't always make it a smart investment, particularly when the stiff fees in some products, such as variable annuities, are considered.
But when taking the entire 500 stocks that make up the index as a whole, the multiple that is being applied as an average to all becomes less variable, although critical to assessing prices.
Throughout every permutation that I ran, the tuition variable had a statistically significant and negative effect on partying, meaning that as students pay more in tuition, they are less apt to go out and party.
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