Keefe points out that government jobs tend to be more stable, and this almost certainly explains a large part of the gap.
The essence is that from 2014, European banks will have to set aside more money to be more stable and concentrate on their core business.
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke called on lawmakers Tuesday to consider new rules to expand the central bank's authority over the financial markets, saying financial markets need to be more stable and resilient.
Investors are attracted to many of the biggest companies, the argument goes, because such firms generate much of their earnings growth overseas and tend to be in more stable industries.
So, as ever with the imperative of fixing what went wrong during the boom before the great crash of 2007-8, it is pretty obvious what needs to be done to provide a more stable financial system.
And it promises to be faster and more stable than its problem-plagued pred ecessor.
"Markets with a high percentage of jobs in those categories tend to be more or less stable markets, " says LMM president Ingo Wizner.
Tossing that 'beta' label on there keeps expectations in check, and allowing early adopters to chime in with bugs enables the final product to be that much more stable across a wide gamut of screen resolutions.
While Netflix appears to be stable with more than 30 million subscribers worldwide, the company is still vulnerable.
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It is hard to say what sort of nuclear future would be more stable and peaceful until you get a lot closer to zero.
"I see things to indicate pricing will be far more stable than last year, " he said.
This could be used to make supercomputers more stable and reliable, and make servers less vulnerable to hacker attacks.
This would be harder to do if workers in more stable sectors were no longer subsidising those in industries where employment is more volatile.
The Millennium Bridge - dubbed the "wobbly" bridge - over the Thames had to be closed for more than 18 months while engineers carried out modifications to make it more stable.
The next five years will be crucial for China to develop a larger and more stable middle class.
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"I think that in the future, we'll see more stable advances and be less vulnerable to panic situations, " he said.
He strongly suggested that the markets would be more stable and benign if investors would return to the practice of long-term investing.
Astronomers think the planets may have yet to reach their final stable orbits, so more violence could be in store.
The decline of manufacturing and the rise of services should be helping to reduce volatility, because demand for services is usually more stable than demand for manufactures.
He expects Western European sales to be roughly stable in 2010, but with demand for bigger and more profitable vehicles replacing the artificial surge in demand for small, cheap cars.
However, this requires more sophisticated technology to look for agents in DNA, which can be stable and present for weeks after exposure.
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"The battle for sustainable development, for delivering a more environmentally stable, just and healthier world, is going to be largely won and lost in our cities, " said Klaus Toepfer, Unep's executive director.
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One could argue that the euro existed for a time without Greece and functioned fine, that allowing Greece to join was a mistake, and thus that a euro without Greece would be more stable.
Analysts also note the consumer-staples sector generally tends to be more supportive of debt loads because sales, even if uninspiring, are usually relatively stable.
One way to use the indexes proactively is to stress test portfolios, State Street says, noting that institutional investors can work to construct allocation models that can be resilient in volatile times and still capture upside in more stable periods.
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So they're going to be potentially a lot less profitable, but the hope is that they will also be much more stable.
The result could be devastating: Greenbacks would depreciate quickly, forcing even other oil-rich countries to switch to more stable currencies.
The idea that a game could be lost if you lose internet for more than three minutes is an enormous problem to players without a stable internet connection.
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