Insurers make money by charging you a premium in exchange for smoothing out your losses from casualties.
It allows you to take advantage of the ups and the downs of the market, smoothing out the cost curve.
The World Bank is helping to set up a means for providing Erdenet with commodity-price insurance, so smoothing out price volatility.
The four-week moving average, which is helpful in smoothing out the ups and downs of the weekly figures, was down 6.2%.
It's morning in America for you and me because these entrepreneurs stayed up nights smoothing out the rough edges of our economic system.
Apple is applying for a patent on a technique that would take the guesswork out of listening by smoothing out all the quirks.
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Mead Smoothing out the cycles Thanks to excess capacity and Asia's financial collapse, the price for pulp has fallen to about half its 1995 level.
It tailors audio according to a set of headphones' acoustic quirks, smoothing out harsh frequencies that one model might accentuate, boosting weak bass for another.
Martin Wong, who works as a textbook editor with publisher McGraw-Hill, writes and copy-edits, smoothing out the prose of the magazine's stable of amateur writers.
Big batteries like these could simply store power, but they could also be useful in smoothing out the bigger spikes and troughs in electricity production that these intermittent sources create.
Combining January and February, thereby smoothing out the impact of the Lunar New Year, exports from South Korea grew 0.6% YoY, marginally better than the 0.4% decline recorded in the fourth quarter of last year.
In the study published Friday, Dr. Bastian, Pablo Celnik from Johns Hopkins University and colleagues studied healthy individuals and whether brain stimulation and split-belt treadmill training, used simultaneously, can speed up progress in smoothing out walking gaits.
Hall and Reis note in their paper that this latter option of smoothing out profits and losses by varying dividends to the Treasury may not be possible if the Treasury decided to prevent the Fed from accumulating too much profit income without handing it over to the rest of the US government.
In short, apart from letting you look like the cool Windows Phone 8 kids, the new version probably won't go too far in smoothing out hard feelings and recovering depreciated phone values -- especially when there's other mobile OSes that won't leave you at the altar, even if your hardware's no longer state-of-the-art.
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