• The meeting or congregating together of people for the purchase and sale of provisions or livestock, publicly exposed, at a fixed time and place.

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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.

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  • Any such information would be no more than snapshot at a fixed point in time, he argued.

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  • "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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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.

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  • 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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  • Group tours can be more convenient and can usually be booked at the last moment they follow a fixed program and time schedule.

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  • DC, now receives a block grant for welfare (a fixed sum based on the amount it received at the time of greatest need) from the federal government.

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  • He was in charge of fixed-income trading at Salomon at the time of a bond-trading scandal in 1991, in which traders under Meriwether made false bids in an effort to manipulate the market in two-year notes.

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  • Much depended on the timing of the requests - in the case of Mr Healey's request, it was made at a "time when consultation had ceased and policy seemed to be fixed", it said, thereby reducing the need for "safe space" for advice.

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  • The thick blast doors on the entrance to the Inverurie complex were permanently fixed in an open position in 1992, a clear sign at the time of the relaxation in tensions between the East and West.

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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.

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  • 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.

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  • As the President said at the time, clearly it is unacceptable and there is a problem that needs to be fixed when four Americans die, as they did in Benghazi.

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  • But that clarity is good clarity, especially at a time when individual investors have low confidence in Wall Street and few options to find fixed-income returns given the low-interest-rate environment.

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  • In the new province of KwaZulu-Natal it was widely believed at the time that the result of the 1994 election was fixed to allow Inkatha to have a majority in the provincial assembly.

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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.

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  • In this recent Jordan re-appreciation, sports fans did what sports fans do, which was argue about where Jordan ranks among the all-time best, and in a lot of those conversations Michael Jordan was fixed at No. 1, ahead of legendary names like Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell and Magic and Larry.

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  • And since debts are fixed in nominal terms, they become less burdensome in a time of inflation (or at least the right kind of inflation) so long as interest rates don't rise.

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  • The power is linked to the coalition government's plans to introduce five-year fixed term parliaments, under which the prime minister would lose the power to dissolve parliament at a time of his or her choosing.

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  • This means that virtual items acquired within Entropia Universe have a real cash value, and a participant may, at any time, initiate a withdrawal of their accumulated PEDs back into real world currencies according to the fixed exchange rate, minus transaction fees, the minimum amount for a withdrawal is 1000 PED.

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  • Stock options allow someone to buy stock at a fixed price, which, in the case of Cheney, can be below what the trading price is at the time the option is exercised.

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  • His student loan program will allow students for the first time ever to borrow money at low cost from the federal government and pay it back as a low fixed percentage of income for up to 20 years.

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