Like previous research, the studies found significant variations in quality between states and among procedures.
The company, which makes its computer chips all over the world, discovered dismaying variations in quality and output from plant to plant, and these variations cost money.
As for popularity: if it worked, it would necessarily produce wild and controversial variations in quality of service.
Residents of different countries buy different combinations of goods and services, or similar items with subtle variations in quality.
Unacceptable variations in quality of services, access and waiting times were seen across the country and valuable early help services were found to be dependent on unstable and reducing funding streams.
That ambivalence — an avoidance of the purely happy ending — is another thing that characterized the Australian new wave, and it gives the series a weight that compensates for some wide variations in quality.
No one has been able to demonstrate that these enormous variations have anything to do with commensurate variations in quality or that price discrimination in health care is efficient, let alone fair.
In recent reports, Attorney General Martha Coakley, a Democrat, concluded that differences in payments to hospitals could not be explained by variations in quality, their mix of patients or the costs of academic medicine.
To qualify as an X.O. or a Napoleon, a Cognac must be aged a minimum of seven years, but that leaves a lot of room for variations in quality since these umbrella categories include Cognacs aged as long as 60 years as well as those aged only 10 years.
Gone were the wide variations in quality and the terrible adulterants added by earlier generations of unscrupulous distillers, and with the discovery that quinine was effective against malaria the colonial officer class began to drink the new "tonic water" enlivened with gin.
In Scudéry's analysis, many virtues are capable of minute variations in quality and operation.
