Any future course of action will need to address pricing accuracy and reduce the high fixed cost base.

The results also reflected China s declining attractiveness as a base for product assembly, low cost manufacturing, and parts production.

Common to both options is the need to promptly implement a series of measures to cut UNOPS fixed cost base.

At the other end of the spectrum, many small, transaction intensive portfolios contribute little to the revenue base while adding disproportionately to the fixed cost base.

While continuing to provide a range of service lines, UNOPS will rationalize and streamline its corporate and support structures to reduce its fixed cost base, introduce activity based costing, and price its services to ensure full cost recovery.

That was followed by a brazen attack on a naval base in Karachi, in which some very expensive equipment, including aircraft, was destroyed.

And that shores up our economy, makes it stable.

Sovereign debt no longer looks stable.

The men were in stable heterosexual relationships.

Therefore if formula_39 both are positive and the point is unstable, and if formula_40 then both are negative and the point is stable.

The government of Slovakia lost its majority and is unstable.

A trigger pulse causes the circuit to enter the unstable state.

Domestic politics remained volatile.

Its security situation is still not completely stable.

But the truth is that it is sheer dumb luck not statesmanship, good professional management, or anything inherently stable about the world s nuclear weapon systems that has let us survive so long without catastrophe.

Others, like Bahrain and Jordan, appear to be relatively stable.

He is now the stable master of Kokonoe stable.

The first condition is a settled territorial arrangement.

But today s low interest rate dynamic is not an entirely stable one.

The very structure of society has come to be shaky.

Naturally occurring xenon consists of eight stable isotopes.

After his retirement he was the head coach of Taihō stable.

The low number of clashes, increased criminality and expanding humanitarian outreach were all consistent with patterns established over the past two months.

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Against this backdrop, Israel and the Palestinian territories are relatively stable places.

The 1920s and early 1930s were a politically unstable time in Finland.

Oxygen Oxygen has three stable isotopes, 16O, 17O, and 18O.

To that end, there are established arrangements through the Committee structure.

The northern area of ISAF operations has been calm but unstable.

The response provided by the European region shows stable trends, but in reality the responses of Central and Eastern European countries differ from those of Western European countries.

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The reason for it, in part, was the extra life boats that were added that made this already unstable ship even more unstable.

Ultimately, there can be no strong Germany without a stable eurozone no stable eurozone without a strong Germany and no global economic stability without both.

Such costs may be difficult to deal with in economies that do not have a diversified or strong productive base or that cannot provide social safety nets for their population, as is the case in many developing countries.

This we should know by now markets on their own are not stable.

Nevertheless, the market for Japanese Government Bonds (JGBs) has so far remained stable.

Unfettered markets are neither efficient nor stable.

Stable rows made up of ten molecules act as the railings of the abacus.

The L2 point provides the spacecraft with a very stable gravitational and thermal environment.

During the most recent period, the situation in Kosovo has remained generally stable.

Therefore, this approach will provide stable, predictable and growing levels of funding.

We hope for a stable Afghanistan that is free of terrorism, war, narcotics and poverty.

We agreed that high priority should be given to establishing stable and efficient institutions.

With regard to the financial arrangements, it will be recalled that in accordance with the practice followed on the occasion of previous multilateral disarmament conferences, and as reflected in the Rules of Procedure, the costs of such conferences, including those pertaining to preparatory meetings, would be shared among the States Parties participating in the conferences, based upon the United Nations scale of assessment pro rated to take into account the number of

Subject to the States Parties' approval of the estimated costs and cost sharing formula, assessment notices will be prepared based on the overall estimated costs and applicable cost sharing formula.