We are also encouraged by URS' strong free cash flow generation, which is a result of its variable-cost focus.

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At the Detroit Big Three plant, the time was fixed, but the result of training was variable and unpredictable.

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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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If sales are off, you need to know which variable is driving the result, so you can take the right action.

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In all cases, although inflation deviates from its target in the short run, the result is to make inflation and output less variable in the long term.

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Besides showing that a sense of fairness has a genetic basis, this result also raises a question: why should the sense of what is fair be so variable?

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As a result, he said all customers would be able to choose between two types of tariff - variable and fixed - and receive more transparent bills.

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