Rothkos easily outpaced gold bullion with no cyclical variance.

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No matter how different the gameplay or setting, this format is always followed to the letter with almost no room for variance.

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There was no difference in the variance of responses before or after the warning was announced.

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As a company serving the cell operators, Upstream has an interest in the major operators recognizing the variance in the developing market: the company asserts that because no Apple-Android duopoly exists in emerging markets, operators can play a greater role in how they develop which would mean more investment and thus more business for Upstream.

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In the case of IFAs, there is evidence of reduced portfolio variance, systematic and unsystematic, as a result of such involvement, but no traces of such an effect remain in the bank advisor sample.

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No longer should we be engineering for robustness, he says, as there is too much variance within the participants.

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