It is little surprise that UBS is looking to cut various parts of its fixed-income trading desk over the coming quarters.

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Below are details on fixed-price, auctions and parts and accessories.

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And it has a respectable business plan: to provide telecom services to those parts of the world where wireless or fixed-line service doesn't really exist--Equatorial Africa and the upper reaches of the Amazon--or where it's inadequate, as in many areas of Africa, India and Latin America.

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Immediately after each service, the cars were checked to see whether the faults had been spotted, and inspected to see exactly which parts of the car had been checked and which items had been fixed or replaced.

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The fixed fee model works for design stages with easily defined goals that are unlikely to change, while parts with less clear objectives are better served via time and materials.

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