Although robots are getting better at adapting to the real world, they still tend to tackle challenges with a fixed set of alternatives that can quickly become impractical as objects (and more advanced robots) complicate the situation.
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Until the early 1970s stocks traded on a fixed commission set by the NYSE, up to 2% each way (or 4% in and out) of the total value of the shares being traded, with extra fees for smaller transactions sometimes doubling the cost.
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Nor should a fixed timetable be set, for that would embolden the insurgents.
In future, councils may have to work within a fixed budget, set by the Department for Communities and Local Government, for council tax benefit.
The person who sets up the trust gets annual payments adding up to the asset's original value, plus a return based on a fixed interest rate set by the Internal Revenue Service.
Most convertible securities allow the buyer to convert into common stock at a fixed conversion price set at a modest premium to wherever the common is trading at the time the convertible security is issued.
O'Leary has similar clients try a horizontal pull-up at home with a pull-up bar in a doorway (from lying on ground) or with a similar setup at the gym (lying on a bench with a fixed horizontal bar set up above).
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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.
They are still paying more for their fuel under 'hedging' deals, in which they set a fixed price months into the future.
Picking the right dividend stocks is subtle though, and requires, ironically, a fixed-income mind-set.
The research, carried out after several years of surveying sea bottom and trial trenching, was devoted to set up a fixed network, to document the site and to excavate the shipwreck.
The percentage bands were plotted at a set percentage around a fixed moving average.
Another example: Brokerage commissions for buying and selling stocks were once set by the SEC at a fixed level.
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This provides insurance for a set number of years, usually in exchange for fixed premiums, which can be paid monthly, quarterly or annually.
Most of its profit now comes from constructing large solar power plants and selling them to debt-financed shell companies set up solely for the purpose of locking in a fixed yield based on electricity sales to utilities.
All other denominations would be tokens, made of a metal too cheap to be worth melting down, that could be exchanged for higher-denomination ones (or for a set amount of the precious metal) at a rate fixed and guaranteed by the government.
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Applicants were initially asked to set up a budget for the grant without the help of fixed parameters.
Casual and charming, but careless of others, steeped in quiet judgment and long-term calculation, his life a fixed agenda that, no matter what happened, would continue on its set course, to whatever end he had decided he deserved.
Customers signing up to You Fix will get a set allowance of minutes, texts and a Flexible Booster for a fixed monthly amount, on a short 12 month plan.
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During the mortgage crisis, the vast majority of jumbos were adjustable-rate mortgages and hybrid adjustable-rate mortgages, which started at low fixed rates and switched to adjustable interest rates at the end of a set time period typically of five, seven or 10 years, said Keith Gumbinger, vice president at HSH.com, a mortgage-information website.
The judge, Mr Justice Openshaw, decided the provisional trial date of 16 November set at the last hearing was to be vacated and a new date fixed at a later hearing.
Unlike traditional bonds, SIBs do not have a fixed rate of return as financial return depends on the achievement of specific social outcomes set at the start of the bond issue.
That would set the pattern for future elections, as the parliament is to have a fixed four-year term.
The Political and Constitutional Reform Committee said it "regrets" the timetable set out for legislation covering the voting reform referendum, fixed-term parliaments and a cut in the number of MPs.
On one hand they are an alternative to shares, with a pre-decided fixed income and (in theory at least) returning the full principle back at the end of a set term.
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According to officers, English, of no fixed abode, had a bottle of white spirit which he had spread around the flat, and he tried to set light to a sofa and a curtain.
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