Committing to someone or a class gives you a fixed time to exercise and you put it on your calendar.
The meeting or congregating together of people for the purchase and sale of provisions or livestock, publicly exposed, at a fixed time and place.
The answer to this mess is to renegotiate the contracts so that spent nuclear fuel already at Sellafield is stored for a fixed time agreed between the parties.
To find the energy hogs, you simply plug each appliance into the meter in turn, and then plug the meter into the wall socket and leave it switched on for a fixed time.
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When a club loans out a player, he joins another team for a fixed period of time, usually anwhere from a few months to a whole season.
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Options, which are a right to purchase shares at a future time at a fixed price, can be a form of compensation to be used by cash-strapped companies to hire key employees they could not otherwise afford.
In the current model, students have a fixed amount of time to learn new concepts.
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Any such information would be no more than snapshot at a fixed point in time, he argued.
Another issue is that unlike some clinical trials, the study does not end after a fixed period of time.
Mr Einhorn's proposals for releasing funds to shareholders involve "preferred" stock - which pays a fixed dividend over time.
Workers would be able to register for legal status for a fixed period of time and then be required to go home.
The most significant part of the program is its open-ended nature rather than a fixed amount or time period for its asset purchases.
The purpose of our patent system is to allow the inventor, for a fixed period of time, to reap the fruits of his labor.
Leased cars, you see, are purchased by the finance company and then leased to individuals for a fixed period of time, usually 24-48 months.
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Is she a fixed point in time that has unfixed itself?
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The company collects a fixed fee each time individuals or businesses register a new .com or .net domain name, or renew the registration of an existing domain name.
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Our patent system was originally designed to foster innovation, and allow any person with a new, useful invention to practice the invention exclusively for a fixed period of time.
Sensor data is stored on the device for a fixed period of time, and accumulated data can be transferred using a special application and FeliCa technology, a popular smart card system in Japan.
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At a minimum, the Ottawa treaty will require the phasing out of such mines within a fixed period of time -- whether alternatives capable of performing the mission have been discovered, or not.
Patent law gives inventors the exclusive rights to use or license their inventions, for a fixed period of time, to encourage disclosure and allow them to benefit from and recoup the cost of their invention.
"It's a very provocative observation to say that one's state of anxiety at a fixed point in time can in some way foretell an increased risk of cardiovascular disease 20 years down the road, " says Dr. Gregory Dehmer, M.
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That 50s area ideal of a part-time job and a fixed up car is simply gone with the wind.
From the outcry, you'd think New York residents were being asked to pay a "spell-check tax" every time they fixed a string of letters in Microsoft Word.
It is an historical accident: employers began offering health insurance during the second world war as a way of attracting workers at a time when wages were fixed by the government.
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Some, such as Fidelity's Asset Manager funds and Vanguard's LifeStrategy Funds, maintain a fixed asset allocation over time.
The talks, which also include religious leaders and academics, have neither a fixed agenda nor a time limit.
The Thatcher and Reagan administrations also abolished capital controls which had been put in place at a time of fixed exchange rates.
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But with yields on ten-year Treasurys stuck near a skimpy 4.2% and credit spreads tight compared with historic norms, this has not been a happy time for fixed incomes.
Companies could be barred from using rolling contracts - where the contract is renewed each day so that at any given time directors have a fixed notice period to serve - to get around limits on the length of time they may serve.
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