The meeting or congregating together of people for the purchase and sale of provisions or livestock, publicly exposed, at a fixed time and place.
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.
Any such information would be no more than snapshot at a fixed point in time, he argued.
"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.
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.
Group tours can be more convenient and can usually be booked at the last moment they follow a fixed program and time schedule.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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