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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Instrumental variable analysis attempts to do just that, standing in contrast to the standard approach used in clinical studies.
How much you'll receive each month when you start to draw down your annuity will then depend on how your variable or fixed investments do over time.
Traveling 120 miles an hour on a road built for cars can be perilous enough, but when you're -- almost literally -- heading into the unknown, it's a variable you can probably do without.
Even when they do not, he never tries to explain why a variable matters.
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.
Upgrading my Trinity-powered HTPC is also high on my to-do list, and will give me a chance to do some benchmark comparisons, since switching the OS will be the only variable on that machine.
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Conwy's Betty Williams was concerned about variable fees and the possibility that they could damage higher education if they do not work out.
We are able to do only a number of days out at a time because the winds are so variable this time of year.
That the EU continues forcing an economically illiterate idea onto those who do not want it is surely causing high levels of inter-governmental anger within the economically variable and culturally disparate group of 20.
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