When A borrows from B, the concept is that B will receive the value originally lent, plus some defined amount of interest.
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Work, traditionally, has been a place you went to and spent a pre-defined amount of time at, in order to earn a livelihood.
Value can be defined as the greatest amount that someone would be willing to pay for a property.
In the center would be advocates of a classical gold standard, in which a dollar is defined as a fixed amount of gold.
The wonkiest among you will recall that the medical loss ratio is loosely defined as the dollar amount that an insurer spends on the health care of its beneficiaries, divided by the total dollar amount the insurer collects in premiums.
One stop of light is usually defined as halving or doubling the amount of light entering the camera, depending on the shutter speed, aperture, or ISO changes made.
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By the same token, the optimal amount of monetary stimulus is defined by the state of the economy.
The same logic applies to Medicaid except that in this case defined contributions also means giving states a fixed dollar amount so that they no longer have an unrelenting incentive to expand their programs.
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And since they lack defined benefit pensions where they're promised a given amount in retirement, odds are the Stretched-Thins' income and tax rates will be lower in old age.
The 20% rate thus is defined as a deviation, an "expenditure" in the amount of up to 19.6%.
Mental toughness can be loosely defined as the ability to play with a normal or greater amount of talent and proficiency under adverse conditions and in pressure situations.
Under the 2005 collective bargaining agreement, the referees maintained their defined benefit retirement plans, which granted retired referees a fixed amount of income based upon years of employment.
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Plans to set a legally defined target of 0.7% of GDP for the amount of financial aid Britain provides to other countries are now unlikely to make it in to the Queen's speech, according to the Guardian.
But if you believe that alcoholism is defined by a preoccupation with drinking, a steady increase in the amount you need to drink in order to get the same effect, and an inability to give it up -- and most in the medical profession do -- then more and more women fit the profile quite nicely, though often come to the realization on their own.
The plan would transition Medicare from a defined-benefit system, in which the government is on the hook for whatever services seniors desire, to a defined-contribution system, in which the government pays out a dollar amount for health services, growing with inflation, incentivizing all participants in the system to prioritize health spending to those services that are most valuable.
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In 1942 laws were passed restricting the amount in classic pensions that provided a set payment, known as defined-benefit plans, to 10%.
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This amount excludes loans already classified as doubtful, which are being disposed of under the defined-policy framework.
The central question the movie poses is whether any amount of potential future prosperity is worth sacrificing a pastoral way of life that has defined a community for generations.
With an unknown amount of dioxane being left to spread at various levels in various directions that are not adequately defined, we should have more monitoring, not less.
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