But Jeffrey Gordon, director of public affairs with the New York State Department of Health, says such a registry isn't necessary.
"Hate crime reporting has been extremely variable," said Robert Leikind, the director of the Connecticut office of the Anti-Defamation League.
"On this snapshot, the advice seems somewhat variable," commented Roger Smith, the director of Justice and one of the judges.
The new definition uses set elevations for each community, "which will make it much easier for someone applying for a permit, because the debris line can be highly variable," said Brian Thompson, the director of the department's Office of Long Island Sound Programs.
But Jim Marks, then Executive Director of the LLF, corrected the record when I spoke with him.
Clients, particularly manufacturing companies, "are becoming very cautious buyers of consulting services because they are a variable cost," said Stephen Sprinkle, global director of strategy at Deloitte Consulting, a unit of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.
Researchers need to separate their variables, said Malachy McHugh, the director of research at the Lenox Hill Hospital Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma in Manhattan.
"The Port Authority is really ahead of the curve with their variable pricing plan," said Janine Bauer, executive director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign.
Why? "Sex 'really has to be considered as a fundamental variable' when designing experiments, says Janine Clayton, director of the Office of Research on Women's Health".
"Hydropower is such a variable supply feed," said Mark Cory, a director of El Paso Corp. Finance Center at Rice University in Houston.
