This suggests that small, open economies may be best served by fixed exchange rates.
Electricity markets are similar to a network of water pools that are connected to each other by fixed size pipes.
Under the government's definition of mixed-sex accommodation, patients should be kept in bays divided at the very least by fixed full-height partitions.
Guildford Borough Council said that new tenants would be given a one-year introductory tenancy followed by fixed term contracts usually for five years.
The stable monetary policy disciplined by fixed exchange rates also minimized the boom and bust business cycle, with its periodic sharp recessions hampering long term growth.
At that time, Deutsche Telekom had announced that third-quarter profit had dropped 20% and cited an increasing number of defections by fixed-line customers and fierce competition in Germany.
But that number has been flat for years, and researchers are feeling the squeeze as more and more of their grant money is eaten up by fixed costs.
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.
And polling, done by fixed-line telephone, under-represents young people.
Inmarsat is also entering a new field, the fixed satellite business ("fixed" refers to the customer, not the satellite) and will access very-small-aperture terminals (VSATs) of the type maintained by fixed satellite service purveyors like Intelsat.
The battle for invisible, but highly valuable real estate, also finds the supposedly unified U.S. delegation taking divergent positions on whether a key portion of the spectrum currently used by fixed wireless operators in the U.S. - the 2, 500-MHz to 2, 690MHz band - should be opened up to mobile users.
That will only change if officials let prices rise to market levels, and allow state enterprises to respond freely to market demand, rather than being ruled by production quotas fixed by economic plans.
For each taxable year, the MAGI, after being reduced by a fixed threshold, is compared to NII.
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Conversely, if you are underweighted in bonds, you put the new contribution to work by purchasing fixed-income securities or funds.
By remaining fixed to their always unique, sometimes disturbing and occasionally divine visions of the world, they hold up a mirror to our society.
Similar to the calculation for individuals, the AGI for the taxable year is first reduced by a fixed threshold amount, and then compared to UNII.
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But the FCC has attempted to strike a balance by prohibiting fixed-line internet service providers from blocking customers from access to any legal content, applications or service.
Automatic adjustment, together with the anchor against inflation provided by the fixed parity, has, for all its defects, delivered much better results than the country has been used to.
Medicare assigns each clinical procedure a different RVU and then multiplies this figure by a fixed amount of money to arrive at how much it will pay a doctor for a given task.
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When the council started the one-year trial with Xfor in April, it said the "service will come at no cost to the council" because the contractor's costs would be met by "fixed penalty notices".
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In the euro area, it is much harder to turn capital gains into cash by borrowing more as home prices rise or to benefit from falling interest rates by refinancing fixed-rate mortgages, both of which have given a big boost to American household spending.
Ruiz, speaking at a Bank of America (nyse: BAC - news - people ) technology conference yesterday, said that in recent months he has focused on tightening the company's supply chain, boosting its capitalization and reducing break-even levels, in part by lowering fixed costs.
Overlaps have also been wasted by long passes being flung out without opposition players being fixed by runners first - a case of drift defence good, drift attack very bad.
Although the overall decline was only 0.6%, the smallest of any recent recession, it was unusual nonetheless because it was caused by a slowdown in fixed investment, not by a slump in house-building or consumption.
The inflation set off by Alan Greenspan's mistaken monetary extravagance in 2004 has not been fixed by his successor.
The NAR also has supported a Senate bill that would offer subprime borrowers an alternative by expanding availability of fixed-rate loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration.
The problem is a minor one and can be fixed by pressing a series of keys.
We view our world through frames of understanding, the boundaries fixed by agreed narrative.
Or maybe they believe all these problems can be fixed by forcing consumers to buy electric cars.
Evidently the crew in Redmond doesn't see piracy as a problem to be fixed by lowering prices.
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