The inflation-adjusted rate which is set by a formula that measures inflation over defined consecutive six-month periods (the current inflation adjustment is 4.6%).
"Portfolio managers' bonuses could be conditional on their performance over a defined period, for senior managers, a minimum of three years, " he said.
If approved by bankruptcy court, the airline would turn over its defined benefit pension plans to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), a federally chartered agency that insures private sector pensions.
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Rival branches and levels of government refused to compete with each other for control over a clearly defined, fixed set of powers.
If we migrate Medicare over to a defined-contribution system, with the popular Medicare Advantage program as the backbone, we can get a lot closer to making sure that Medicare is still around when the next generation retires.
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Unfortunately, we estimate that well over 90% of defined contribution plans are not operated properly.
The new westbound lane would extend three miles past the continental shelf, and contain traffic to a defined area over the whale feeding grounds.
To qualify for the ranking at all, each company had to have an above-average reputation score (defined as over 70) in its home market, based on Reputation Institute's global database of RepTrak scores spanning 2006 to 2010.
You begin to accept that, for better or worse, the old rules and rewards system is falling apart and the simple equation of exchanging your time and skills for a fixed salary and defined benefits over a 30-year period no longer adds up.
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Fortuitous events have undeniably defined Derek Jeter over the past two decades.
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Data-driven healthcare has become increasingly well-defined and understood over recent years.
But mostly, the design is defined by being over-designed, which is to say, the components are vastly stronger than any conceivable stresses the bike might encounter.
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M2 velocity is a measure of how fast broadly defined money supply turns over each year.
Bullying was defined as repeated instances over a six-month period, rather than just one-off conflicts in the playground.
Our rankings cover the 200 largest metro areas (populations over 240, 000) as defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget and are based on nine factors.
Over the years, I have defined myself in many ways: as a student, a lawyer, an environmentalist, an author, a wife, a mom, and a business woman.
But Tuesday's unveiling of the "Women's Equality Act" which also includes nine other elements of Mr. Cuomo's women's rights agenda will set up a philosophical fight in the state Senate over a divisive issue that has defined the nation's culture wars for four decades.
It's the province of the day skier, loosely defined, since lights all over the mountain permit night runs.
That rock star persona reflects the unusual way Mr. Toyoda has defined the job he took over in 2009.
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Over the years, I've defined an eight-step process for transforming organizations successfully.
While the DOL and PBGC exert tremendous influence over the more than 34 million workers and retirees in over 29, 000 single-employer defined benefit plans, in many respects these two agencies operate in secrecy.
When the charts launched over 70 years ago, a hit was defined as selling copies of a single or generating airplay.
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The Syrian government has blamed the violence on "armed terrorist groups, " the vaguely defined entities it has consistently blamed over the past year.
Over the past two decades it has been defined by the rise of low-caste outfits, including the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which is led by a dalit woman, Mayawati.
After a period defined by inelegant U-turns over the budget, lack of economic progress, squabbles over Lords reform and mishaps including the expensive mishandling of a rail franchise, even loyal MPs are concerned about the lack of a broad, convincing vision.
Though the rural-to-urban trend has defined the state's politics over the last decade, some Democrats said that Obama's organization can only take him so far in a state with decidedly moderate tendencies and a 9.7% unemployment rate -- the fourth highest in the nation.
The PBGC, the guarantor of defined benefit pensions that has taken over thousands of pensions has never undertaken a comprehensive forensic investigation of even a single failed pension aimed at determining whether there were any conflicts of interest, hidden financial arrangements or wrongdoing that may have contributed to the demise of the fund.
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In most parts of the developing world, control over resources at the village level is ill-defined.
This was defined as a service to be taken over by two Outsourcing Partners.
Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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