And with fixed-rate mortgages coming to an end, higher fuel costs, food bills and council tax, it says many people with decent salaries are struggling.
And with no fixed supply of raw material, unlike stocks or bonds, bets could be almost limitless.
So we set off down the long straight road across California and Nevada with two GoPros fixed outside the car, and the Canon Digital SLR fixed to the dashboard.
Mr Kumar said the team matches on 5 May with Pune, 9 May with Punjab and 15 May with Mumbai were fixed.
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Consumers had to work through them and with them, which limited choice and fixed pricing.
Windows Embedded 8 Industry, which targets retail point-of-service (POS) solutions and other scenarios across manufacturing and healthcare that require fixed experiences with enhanced lockdown, branding and the other benefits of Windows Embedded 8, will be available the week of April 1.
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They cannot bear to risk such capital losses again, so they stay away from equities and over-weight their portfolios with Treasury bonds and other conventional fixed income securities where they naively believe they cannot lose principal.
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Finally, AgustaWestland surprised the HeliExpo crowd by revealing that it has been secretly testing an electrically powered tiltrotor, mixing the versatility of a vertical takeoff and land helicopter with the speed and range of a fixed-wing aircraft.
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The tortoise raised its wormy head and fixed him with an old eye above its nostriled beak.
American mortgages are mostly long-term and fixed, with no penalties for early repayment.
JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America struggled with fixed-income trading, especially in interest rate positions, while Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley recorded record gains, largely on interest rate bets.
It is five o'clock in the morning and in a scene that would not look out of place in a zombie film, bleary-eyed youngsters, with fixed stares and many still clad in their night clothes, stagger into a leisure centre in west London.
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While the Wii was trying to innovate with its motion controls, the 360 and PS3 were firmly fixed on a more traditional evolution of gaming, with regular controllers and better graphics.
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Some of their proposed design changes strayed far from the original CLASS design, which would have made it possible for nearly everyone who worked to enroll, included a premium subsidy for students and others with low incomes, charged a fixed premium, and paid a lifetime benefit for those who were unable to care for theselves.
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Apart from student loans, Discover also provides personal loans which are unsecured loans with fixed interest rates, fixed terms and fixed payments, and are primarily intended to help customers consolidate existing debt, although they can be used for any reason.
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It's been quite difficult to arrange these matches because I came into the job pretty late and the clubs were all mostly fixed up with their pre-season programme and matches.
If you decided to receive a fixed annuity, you should spend a portion of it and put the remainder in investments to supplement your fixed payments and keep up with inflation.
Read Richard Lehmann and pocket 8% yields and big capital gains in fixed-income with bonds, convertibles, preferreds and MLPs.
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Decelerating growth with increasing fixed and variable costs does not bode well for future profitability.
Children with autism are focused on a daily routine with fixed habits and familiar surroundings.
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It must grapple with fixed costs and uncommitted capital that has yet to buy income-producing properties, he says.
In more jargony terms, social marketing is just great for producers with fixed costs and near zero marginal costs.
In its judgement, the Court of Appeal said that it was replacing the IPPs with fixed terms and extended licences.
The torpid feline raised its huge head, yawned, and fixed the boat with a long, disinterested stare, eventually resuming his interrupted siesta.
With a fixed and overvalued exchange rate, Chavez will rely on tough spending cuts (after a pre-election bonanza) and devaluation, which would act as a de facto tax hike.
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Chief Executive Charles Li is refocusing HKEx to take advantage of expectations that China will become a net exporter of capital as currency restrictions are relaxed, with growing commodities and fixed-income products to diversify away from low-margin cash equities.
At best, progressive politicians can hope to define themselves by fixed values, such as concern for the poorest at home and abroad, rather than by policies with fixed party labels.
But William Fox-Pitt and his horse Tamarillo are not afraid of a challenge and attacked the fixed rails, yawning ditches and steep banks with gusto and won.
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