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That is the opposite of what we should have happen. Out in this part of the country our yields can be variable, it can be dry and then it can be very wet.

Steve Wik

The key variable is Chinese domestic politics. How do you demand anything in Chinese culture and not get it.

David Shambaugh

It's a big variable. And this year, all of the [events] in primetime will be on tape.

Jon Swallen

[Life expectancy for people with FOP is] tremendously variable, ... The average life span is mid-40s, but it ranges from the teens to the 80s.

Fred Kaplan

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

Linda Sims

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

Rick Sharga

Percentage of company killed is likely a powerful variable because it serves as a proxy for various traumatic stressors, such as witnessing death or dismemberment, handling dead bodies, traumatic loss of comrades, realizing one's own imminent death, killing others and being helpless to prevent others' deaths.

Judith Pizarro

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

Serhan Cevik

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

Tom Blair

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.

Carlos Augusto Levorin

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.

Grey Giovanine

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.

David Houghton

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.

Don Strassberg

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.

Fritz Elmendorf

The reason it immediately shows up on my radar screen as being horribly low is because the soils are so variable.

Robert Bea

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.

Richard Ward

[For example, Sony (SNE) executives have publicly expressed support for more variable pricing, enabling them to charge more for hot new hits and less for rarely sought oldies in the archive.] The market is starting to move towards greater differentiation, ... Why should everything be the same price? No other market in the world works like that.

Thomas Hesse

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.

Lanny Faleide

Then other mornings, he sleeps in. So it's very variable.

Lisa Stevens

We found that faith and spirituality were the key factors. The women with a strong sense of faith had significantly more variable heart rates than those who reported less spiritual well-being. In addition, the coping style most strongly associated with heart-rate variability was religious coping ? the use of prayer or meditation to cope with stress and find comfort.

Carissa Low

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.

Alan Anderson

This reporting season is very variable. Some of the results have been truly appalling and some have been very nice indeed. We don't normally get such a wide spread of results.

Simon Denham

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

Ambrose Bierce

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.

Dean Neary

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.

Thomas Hamlin

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.

Mark Scheibe

Profit levels declined in the past quarter because of market challenges such as the exchange rate. Excluding the exchange rate variable, the financial results were on the whole reasonable.

Chu Woo Sik

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

Clive Beddoe

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

Clay Ingram

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.

Adrienne Freeman

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.

Robert Friedman

Harnessing and directing the innovation process to bring new ideas into production is the key enabler for competitive success in the North American automotive market. In the global marketplace, where engine concepts are increasingly complex and variable, innovative ideas and proven results are essential.

Gary Rogers

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

John Arvin

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.

Gary Ambrose

Although the pH sensor doesn't necessarily tell you the lime requirements, it does identify field areas needing lime. We use it to show the highs and lows on a map. Then we take manual soil tests and use those as a calibration for the map, which helps us to perform variable-rate applications.

Viacheslav Adamchuk

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.

Hong Liang

Average numbers can sometimes be misleading. Erosion rates are highly variable and never steady.

Spencer Rogers

You can't mix oranges and apples. When you add foreign exchange risk to bond investments, you are creating a new variable which usually dominates the bond performance.

Raphael Kassin

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?

Matt Kleinschmit

The only way to know color management works is to compare input and output, and your lighting environment impacts that comparison. At some point, you need controlled lighting to keep the comparison stable and non-variable. If you don?t have a fixed point to judge against, you have nothing.

Robert Mccurdy

My proposal features an attractive arrangement of transitional land uses, including small residential like professional offices and a neighborhood of variable intensity residential lots. These uses are tied together and connected to a central open space reserve through a comprehensive internal pedestrian and vehicular circulation system.

Cary Clarke

Both times they tried to sign up for fixed-rate 30-year mortgages, and both times they were give a variable-rate mortgage instead, and ones with huge pre-payment penalties, so they were stuck.

Sarah Nathan

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.

Mary Schapiro

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

Julio Mora

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

Royal Masset

I would say that it's always the economy. People always vote their pocketbooks and if they're hurting they're going to want a change ... If present trends hold with interest rates ticking up and the amount of variable rate debt that's out there on the home mortgage side ... yeah, I think it has some very negative political consequences.

Mark Sanford

The stock market might be a variable, but I think it's totally trumped by other factors right now.

Leslie Alperstein

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.

Mark Kantrowitz

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.

Rolf Elgeti

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

Simon King

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.

Randy Davis

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.

Stan Kasten

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.

Mark Schonfeld

Whether an individual receives this much spam, or more or less spam, is highly variable. What an individual may consider spam, another person may consider legitimate, requested e-mail.

Derrick Jackson

The problem is, they're variable.

Steve Rhode

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.

Adrienne Freeman

I'm concerned about misapplication of certain feed by-products. We have a lot of options available. Many have tremendous feeding value, but most also come with special considerations…By their nature, feed co-products are variable. You can run into a wreck in a hurry if you don't do a nutrient analysis.

Jason Sawyer

A lot of people thought we were crazy for getting into the annuity business. What we tried to do is pull out all the things in a variable annuity that people don't like. They come to us for more choices.

Barry Streit

Pretty much the only variable factors I can see in [the midterm plan] are fuel costs. For JAL to turn a profit, some tough cost management is necessary--and it will be impossible to accomplish if [another such event] were to happen.

Yasuhiro Matsumoto

At a company like Dell, it's a strategic variable. Their strategy is to have the best product at the best price. But in order to have this, the supply chain must be competitive. Everybody [at Dell] is trying to reduce costs, increase flexibility, reduce inventory and get their cash more quickly. All of these drive financial performance.

Dan Hawthoff

We have synthetically prepared heparin in quantities large enough for use in human medical treatments by engineering recently discovered heparin biosynthetic enzymes. These discoveries will enable us to effectively replace a variable raw material -- heparin derived from processed animal organs -- with a synthetic material -- synthetic heparin -- and have the same therapeutic result.

Robert Linhardt

The question of how much increased parental involvement there will be is a variable that is very hard for me as chancellor.

Joel Klein

The road conditions are so variable here, there is ice, snow and everything in between. But a podium finish is a definite possibility if we stay smooth and adjust to the slippery conditions.

Ken Block

They need to look at the worst-case scenario. If they decide to go variable and it goes against them, what's that going to do to them? Play the different scenarios in [your] mind.

Lynn Lawrance

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

Bob Schuchardt

Perhaps a new sort of feminist politics is now desirable to contest the very reifications of gender and identity, one that will take the variable construction of identity as both a methodological and normative prerequisite, if not a political goal.

Judith Butler

[An enhanced set of filter options enables a list of wells and other entities to be sorted by name, entity, type or variable value with additional options to refine the selection of a subset of wells.] In some oil fields there are hundreds or thousands of wells, ... The filtering allows them to focus on wells based on specific criteria, such as top producers.

Brandon Roberts

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

George Magliano

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.

Ken Abosch

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

Elizabeth Cohen