The key is making the infrastructure scalable and affordable, while developing a variable cost model.
Instead, advertising becomes a variable cost of production that measurably results in making more profit.
If you own or manage a business, you know the variable cost for minutes, texts, and data can grow quickly.
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It looks like the variable cost of upgrading to newer curriculum will be pretty cheap, though, which is good- its just a question of how long the equipment can last.
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Our ability to differentiate through product innovation, evolve our variable cost model, and maintain a robust balance sheet means that we are well positioned to capitalize on future growth opportunities as the gap closes between demand and actual spending by our core network customers.
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We are also encouraged by URS' strong free cash flow generation, which is a result of its variable-cost focus.
But doing so will mean replacing high-power-density sources that are reliable and low cost with low-power-density sources that are highly variable and high cost.
Worst still are the high cost variable annuities with mutual fund clones that pervade the governmental defined contribution plans.
The big variable is the cost of natural gas, the preferred, cleaner alterative.
The fees typically raise the already-high cost of a variable annuity to an average of almost 3.5% of assets per year, according to Morningstar.
Thanks to endorsement schemes, high cost, poor performing variable annuities have come to dominate the 457 and 403b marketplace.
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For example, rather than purchase expensive ultra-efficient motors, low cost opportunistic additions to old fans and pumps such as variable frequency drives and demand controls can deliver equal energy savings at a fraction of the cost.
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Siting decisions for major facilities are among the most important a company makes and reliable, low-cost energy is a critical variable.
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The answer is, overwhelmingly, insurance companies peddling high-cost, tax-deferred variable annuities with crappy proprietary mutual fund options and high-risk fixed accounts.
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On the other hand, if the employer is asleep at the switch and simply outsources investment decision-making regarding the plan to, say, an insurance company, the investment options will almost certainly be wrapped in a high-cost, high-risk variable annuity.
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Islamic banks will face a higher cost of credit because returns from profits are variable: high in good years and low in bad ones.
According to some estimates, nearly 90% of loans in the country have a variable interest rate, which means that any rise in the cost of borrowing will impact majority of South Korean households.
About half of mortgage borrowers have variable-rate loans and are therefore generally benefiting from the reduced cost of servicing their debt.
To test another variable the only choice was to rerun the entire pilot and therefore double the cost.
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Notice 2012-72 contains the standard mileage rates, the amount a taxpayer must use in calculating reductions to basis for depreciation taken under the business standard mileage rate, and the maximum standard automobile cost that a taxpayer may use in computing the allowance under a fixed and variable rate plan.
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That they are not including the cost of connecting wind power to the grid, the necessary costs of dealing with variable supply, of needed back up and so on.
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