Variable Quotations

It is critical to bundle all future variable costs of supporting the customer in order to fairly estimate the future contribution.

If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time.

I am highly variable in my devotion. From a doctrinal point of view or a dogmatic point of view or a strictly Catholic adherent point of view, I'm first to say that I talk a good game, but I don't know how good I am about it in practice.

Music labels would much rather have variable price, so they can charge more for hits and perhaps less for older tracks. Apple likes the $0.99 price because it is simple, uniform, not too high to discourage buyers, and very easy to administer and merchandise.

Simply ceasing activity or dropping production dramatically is not possible. However, many of us are looking at how we can turn fixed costs into variable costs, and options such as contract farming become all the more attractive.

Securities firms that sell variable life insurance products must ensure that they are appropriate for particular investors and that brokers do not mislead their customers about the nature of these products,

What you'll probably see is things like lines of credit move up a bit, variable rate mortgage rates will move up as well.

We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals of interest in even the most obscure ones tend to reveal more about those who make revisionist assessments than about those who are being reassessed.

Last year, food price inflation was 38 percent and this year it's only 1.6 percent, so that's the one variable that has given the government a lot of room to liberalize prices.

PEDESTRIAN, n. The variable (an audible) part of the roadway for an automobile.

I think that we've got a huge head start on things that are not easy to do: progressive streaming, to be able to stream in very high quality, even in an environment of highly variable bit rate, and to work on a big variety of devices seamlessly.

Late March through April and early May are definitely among the most variable months. That's one of the things that makes this place incredible because it's constantly changing.

O woman!- In our hours of ease, uncertain, coy, and hard to please, and variable as the shade, by the light quivering aspen made; when pain and anguish wring the brow, a ministering angel thou

Our core skill is printing variable data onto products at high speed in the manufacturing environment.

With the electronics that have been added, the farmer can put a black box in the tractor or combine and just push a button telling all that stuff how to react to the different sensors. The ability to do some of the creative things with our planters, like variable speeds and guidance systems, all came from electro-hydraulics.

We can throw variable pricing in and we can raise prices of a hit song, but it doesn't mean consumers will buy. They have an alternative - get songs for free.

Most employees view base salary as a barometer of their worth, so thinking about a steady decrease in the amount of money being provided to them has had a psychological impact. That's why organizations looked to variable pay as a way to counteract that -- until recently.

Whichever variable you look at, it's a big improvement.

We continue to see the movement from fixed income to variable income.

That's the variable (with this year's team). Comparisons mean nothing. It's about doing it on the field. What I can tell this group is how (1999 seniors) approached that season like there wasn't going to be another baseball game to be played, ever. - This team has come in with a good attitude.

We have had a great deal of precipitation, but the variable warming and cooling trends has made it so some of the snow has melted, so we have already had some fairly high peaks in the water flows.

The only variable that we have stagnated on is our national reputation.

We're able to sense how a crop grows within a field, much like a yield monitor will make a map based on yield. We can create different variable application maps to control different rates of fertilizers and chemicals that are put on the field automatically through a GPS receiver.

We'd get snow and rain, and then a lot of rain. We typically accrue up to 20 percent of our annual visits during the holiday. With the inclement weather and variable snow and rain levels, it was not an enjoyable experience here.

We are having a constant flow of domestic investment. People have changed their strategy. If you want a good return you have to go to variable income.

The one variable that could throw this whole thing in the trash basket is if Delphi workers walk.

The outsized gain in housing starts was influenced by the same variable dominating most of the other headline stats like the retail sales and industrial production, namely weather. Everyone knows that housing starts is a volatile number that generally reports wide swings.

We thought variable was more equitable for students.

We're hoping by the time we roll around in the fall we could take that variable of 'How much does a guy really know?' out of it. If he is struggling with the learning of it, he is probably not going to play. If he understands it, now it is more of a competition.

Earnings are the big variable for European stock investors this year because unless you believe earnings are going to come off sharply, it is very hard to be bearish on equities.

At the time AOL went unlimited, CompuServe deliberately chose not to follow with the point being how can you charge a fixed rate for something that has variable costs? There is a cost to someone dialing and just sitting on the system. That was what AOL ran into.

Think about the relative merit of variable rates versus fixed-rate credit. Locking in a fixed rate now gives you a great deal of comfort. Even though the lowest rate might be a variable rate, those could start to climb again next year.

Assuming $8,000 variable contribution margin/unit, we estimate this translates into an earnings-per-share hit of 1 cent for every day of lost production. However, we also note that much of this lost production could be made up via overtime production once the plants are up and running again.

The question you need to ask yourself is, why would a bank be pitching you this product at this time? The obvious answer is that bankers believe rates will rise in the future. Getting you out of a fixed loan and into a variable one helps ensure profitability on your account.

When you play a team that is going to press you for 40 minutes, you would certainly like to have your starting point guard. We have to attack them collectively and not have one individual handle that pressure. We really have to share the ball. They really extend you physically. I hope our depth will be a variable that will help us.

The robin population is variable from one winter to the next.

The scientist in me makes it my preference that you try one variable or supplement at a time for each medical problem. The exception is taking a multiple vitamin-mineral supplement. That's always a good idea.

Variable pay is designed to help employees concentrate on company goals and objectives, while eliminating 'entitlement' issues that often arise with a holiday bonus.

Both Air Transat and Air Canada went to a variable voting structure and we were the oddball,

Defense is the variable you have control over. Shooting the percentage we shot from the 3-point line is not a realistic expectation and being able to score at will from the block is not a realistic expectation. You should have high expectations of yourself defensively because that's about you.

That newer piece, for example, might have a variable speed drive, as opposed to the old-style motor. This can offer considerable savings if plants replace their existing equipment with the variable speed unit.

Teenagers are moody enough. Their self-esteem is variable enough from one moment to the next. It's hard to identify a clear-cut sign that a person has been abused. There are very few, if any, sure signs.

There's no question that race has always been and will continue to be an important variable in American attitudes toward immigration.

This is the beginning of variable pricing so we can respond on a micro level to be sure we can attract and retain as many customers as we can. With the variation in the pricing, we can respond to specific rivals.

In this situation, she is the most powerful player. She controls the variable in this session the spending limits.

If you can introduce indeterminacy and jitter in the timings either by variable clock periods or by introducing dummy calculations, that can help.

If you have a variable rate mortgage, now is the time to refinance and lock in a fixed rate to protect yourself in the long run.

Snoring has a huge spectrum, and I think that's the key variable you need to keep in mind,

The biggest variable was the turf. On grass, passes that would be right at our feet scooted away from us.

It's really variable throughout the area this year. I've been through fields that are doing very well, and others that look just terrible. It all depends on how much rain they got, and when it came.

The new company will have different products and a presence in more markets. Demand for products turns on and off: Sometimes fixed products are hot and sometimes variable ones are. With a broader product portfolio, the company will have something to sell no matter what the environment is.

The intent is to have the rates set at such a level that (the lane) doesn't get overcrowded -- that's the purpose of a having a variable rate.

The labels really want to be able to boost up the price for downloads on new releases. The question is, are we at a time now that we want to experiment with variable pricing?

The variable rate mortgages increased house payments by as much as 50 percent for some people.

The variable that's having the most impact now is the weather.

Clearly, water and its availability is becoming a critical variable in many local land markets around the state.

By not tying policy to a small set of forecast indicators, we may sacrifice some degree of simplicity, but we are less likely to be misled when a favored variable behaves in an unusual manner.

Anybody who hasn't consolidated should consolidate before the law goes into effect. The appeal of consolidation under current law now is you're taking a variable rate and locking in at a fixed rate.

The capital markets environment of the third and the fourth quarters was unlikely to stimulate strong industry-wide sales in any of the major product categories including variable annuities, fixed annuities, variable life insurance or universal life insurance.

The key variable here is the consumer. As of now, consumer spending is way down so that may be the most critical thing they'll look at,

The key variable that people need to focus on is what happens in the U.S. economy. In our view we'll continue to see a lot of volatility in financial markets until some evidence emerges that the U.S. economy is slowing down.

The idea is to maximize dollars and maximize the number of tickets sold. You maximize dollars for highly desirable games, and offer value to attract people to games they might otherwise not attend. Variable pricing is an idea that comes from the real world -- airlines, department stores. It's not an idea that sports invented. Sports has come to quite late to the party.

It's a little bit difficult to anticipate the situation beforehand because weather conditions could be quite variable down here.

It's not a place you can be a little off. You don't have the variable of a long runway to correct any errors.

They have a very fast growing variable annuity business that has not even been recognized in the market place, yet, ... It's just perceived as a stodgy property and casualty company.

Throw in cyclical and season demand, high capital or (aircraft) leasing expenses, and low variable costs with cutthroat competition, and it is no wonder that airlines lose more money than they make.

We talked to Rob (Cuthbert) today. We are going to work with him to try to speed this process up. That was the premise behind our office doing an advance cursory review of their variable message sign contract.

We expect demand to be high as feedback from customers has shown a desire for a choice between fixed-rate accounts and high-interest variable accounts.

It is particularly troubling when variable annuities, which are designed for and sold to retail investors to save for retirement and purchase life insurance, are affirmatively marketed to professional market timers.

This is the least expensive variable annuity we've found that offers a living income benefit and contains a guaranteed roll-up death benefit. And the living income benefit and death benefit are second to none in the industry.

If Fed Funds were expected to rise in the future, the curve would be positive with intermediate and long bonds requiring higher yields as a cushion against accelerating short rates. If the Fed were expected to lower rates, a flatter, even inverted curve might result. It's not that this academic theory has been dislodged in recent years but it may have been asked to take a seat next to the increasingly important variable of global financial flows. These flows, no doubt, rely critically on the willingness of foreign investors to hold U.S. assets in the face of potential currency and asset price depreciation.

The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable from person to person.