- Scottish Life for a letter in response to an endowment policy query
‘The growth of the policy is calculated through more then one area of the plan, the annual reversionary bonus is only one area of this growth, the part of the growth rate of this policy is the increased rates of the terminal bonus rate for a policy with a term of 24 years is currently 24% of the basic sum assured and the total bonuses attaching. The terminal bonus is only applied at the end of the plan and is not known to ourselves until this is applied.’
- Met Office website for the Winter 2008 – 9 Forecast
‘Forecast uncertainties
Seasonal forecasts indicate how slowly-varying large-scale climate influences make particular seasonal conditions more likely than others. Random, unpredictable factors (‘chaos’) also partly determine year-to-year variations, and these will sometimes override large-scale influences. Such uncertainties make a probabilistic format, as used here, advisable for seasonal forecasts'
- HM Revenue and Customs for a letter to a customer
‘Thank you for your Tax Returns ended 5th April 2006 & 2007 which we received on 20th December.
I will treat your Tax Return for all purposes as though you sent it in response to a notice from us which required you to deliver it to us by the day we received it.’
- The Co-operative ecotown website for
‘The flexibility of the eco-town enables the densification of residential plots that occur at an individual level, with the opportunity to create the value (rather than incur the cost) that this implies.’
- VCA Midlands Centre for a letter
‘The requirement on each member State under Article 2 of the Directive to minimise the disposal of WEEE as unsorted municipal waste and to achieve a high level of collection of WEEE for treatment, recovery and environmentally sound disposal.’
- D C Site Services – website FAQs in response to the question – “How much will I get paid when working for DCSS?”
‘The basic answer is that DC Site Services Ltd will always meet the minimum hourly wage when paying our staff for work on-site. Many of you often ask for more information – specific rates for specific events. It would of course take some time to here detail the full financial logistics of running a company, especially one as modular as DC Site Services. What we mean by this is that we don’t sell oranges. The selling of oranges, one would assume is fairly straight forward. You buy your oranges, you place your oranges in a cart, you pull your cart to your preferred orange retail outlet, or if going for the maximum profit – your preferred spot in the sun, you sell your oranges on. As you may have guessed - our oranges are fairly involved, many have personal issues, many are in the midst of education – here trying to better their colour, many have families often requiring attention with little notice. All this and more we attempt to work with and sometimes even help with. As with our oranges themselves both our carts and retail outlets (or your and our preferred spots in the sun) are also fairly involved – the latter often chopping and changing with regard to both location and size up to the last minutes. We always try to get the best deal for our standard oranges, and it has also been known for us to give bonuses to our really fruity oranges. Although, with such a volatile market - with so many competitors quoting to the same grocers; from time to time we have to lower our prices to keep our juices flowing. Please keep in mind our oranges are well treated, stored in secure areas, fed (contextually) well, adorned with pretty passes allowing access to peachy areas often out of reach to the average veg...’
- Balfour Beatty half-year update 2008
‘Our goal at Balfour Beatty is to deliver consistent, long-term growth to our shareholders. We do this by striving to remain or become the leading provider of high-quality, customer critical infrastructure in each of our markets. By becoming the partner of choice to sophisticated owners in our chosen disciplines and geographies, we believe we will achieve secure, industry best margins in our contracting activities and substantial, sustainable equity returns from our long-term investment portfolio.’
- Financial Services team at McGill University, Canada for
‘Our collective success rests with our commitment to service excellence and ongoing process improvement. As such, there will be an increased focus in two pivotal areas, namely: Systems Infrastructure & Communications and Controls & Compliance. This new structure will positively impact the delivery of day-to-day functions for our students and professors thanks to the continuous improvement cycle that will be generated by the new structure. This cycle will inherently deliver an incessant flow of process and systems assessment, improvement, and communication with the related development, distribution, and implementation of necessary tools, education, and support. This will in turn maximize user comprehension and increase overall efficiency.’
