In the long term, living with a fixed exchange rate demands wage and price flexibility.
For the many Russians making Soviet-era goods that were unsalable at any price, barter became a way of restoring price flexibility.
The argument may come down to price and flexibility two things Apple has never been famous for.
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That difference is reflected both in price and flexibility at Chegg.com, which offers more than four million books in various formats.
This devolution of power back to the two transacting parties would result in increased physician autonomy, patient empowerment, and a drop in the prices charged for healthcare services as the absence of a third party would eliminate much overhead while allowing more flexibility in price structure.
Moreover, industry "does not have the power sector's flexibility to respond to changes in carbon price by reducing their emissions".
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Penney and Kohl's as two stores with enough margin flexibility to avoid being very negatively affected by price promotions, should they be needed to draw traffic.
Both Cocoon audio docks feature the ability to stream directly from an iPhone, iPod, networked hard drive or USB thumb drives, delivering groundbreaking performance and flexibility in an iPod docking solution at any price.
To date, inflation expectations appear to have remained reasonably well anchored, but any tendency of inflation expectations to become unmoored or for the Fed's inflation-fighting credibility to be eroded could greatly complicate the task of sustaining price stability and reduce the central bank's policy flexibility to counter shortfalls in growth in the future.
For its part, Moody's said its review was based on "growing concern" about MBIA's new business prospects and financial flexibility, given the sharp deterioration in its share price, which makes it difficult to raise new capital, if needed.
One way distributors hope to convince some of those customers to stick around is by offering them more flexibility in the form of programming packages offered at different price points.
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The ability to use fuels other than petroleum is critical to our energy security because it will increase our flexibility and reduce the services' vulnerability to rapid and unforeseen changes in the price of oil.
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