Since pipeline costs are mostly sunk costs, not variable, about 95% of that drops to the bottom line.
It is difficult enough with health care, but at least health care pricing is not hyper variable.
FORBES: Engaging the Electric Grid - From Information to Intelligence
Government expenditures are not the only variable, so even if we had more examples of small government, we would still not be able to specify an optimal size of government expenditures, where the Rahn Curve peaks.
FORBES: Narrow focus on debt and deficits distracts us from the primary problems
Notably, Fed policy was not the only variable at play when it came to our currency.
In economics we can often observe the fact that a dependent variable is not always able to move immediately after a fortuitous change in an independent variable.
In other words, this variable does not rise to the level of adding useful information in the presence of the other variables.
Decelerating growth with increasing fixed and variable costs does not bode well for future profitability.
They are complex and variable and fascinating not only as societies but also as individuals.
But unlike Global Insight, they use a proxy for the first variable that is not itself affected by the second.
The freedom to move about the track "was a variable that had not been seen before, " Mr. Barnhart said at a news conference Thursday.
The investment component of variable products is not guaranteed at all, but the assets in the investment pool belong to the annuity holders, not to the insurer or its creditors.
The CEBS stresses that variable remuneration "should not pose detriment to the timely building up of capital base" nor, where applicable, to the timely exit from government support.
Even worse, when OPERA ran their experiment for a second time, they only changed one variable, and did not try to address other important criticisms of the initial methodology from both outside and inside the OPERA Collaborative.
FORBES: Leaders Of The 'Faster-Than-Light' Experiment Resign
First, the rate of crossing over is quite variable in women, but not in men, though nobody knows why.
Studies such as this one, which rely on correlating one variable with another, are not enough to draw firm conclusions on their own, since correlation is not necessarily causation.
The average benefit was 1.6 days, not 3 days, and it was highly variable.
Some will allow a top-up to variable-rate Isas, but not to fixed-rate products.
The triple net feature allows for a more predictable cash flow stream because the building owner is not burdened with having to pay for the variable costs.
FORBES: Health Care REITs Should Provide Durable Income in 2013
Even when they do not, he never tries to explain why a variable matters.
The report said the demand for broadband among deep rural residents was not being met and that many continued to experience variable mobile phone reception.
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.
FORBES: Oil Continues to Rise Because the Dollar Continues to Fall
The distribution of investment management includes, but is not limited to: separately managed accounts, mutual funds, variable annuities, unit trusts, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), exchange-traded notes (ETNs) and other exchange-traded products (ETPs).
And the government is not averse to some sort of incentive scheme (ie, a variable profit).
So if fixed profits and variable profits are now acceptable, are any sort of profits not?
Mark Harris, chief executive of mortgage broker SPF Private Clients, explained that most mortgages track a lender's standard variable rate, or the base rate, so most are not directly affected by Libor.
The time lag averages roughly four quarters, 12 months, but Friedman said not only that the time lags are long, but also that they are variable.
FORBES: QE3 And The Economy: It Will Help, But Not Solve All Problems
It will not matter that RBS, more than any other British bank, has introduced variable compensation that usually cannot be claimed in the year that it is earned.
More employers (11%) already offer annuity or insurance products within their 401(k) plans such as variable annuity features or guaranteed minimum withdrawal benefits, and of those employers not offering these features, 3% are very likely and 13% are somewhat likely to add them this year, according to the Aon Hewitt report.
FORBES: How To Make Your 401(k) Last Forever: The Pension Rollover
Conwy's Betty Williams was concerned about variable fees and the possibility that they could damage higher education if they do not work out.
应用推荐