With their studios and transmitters in place, broadcasters are, in effect, fixed-cost producers.

ECONOMIST: MONITOR

The measure would have ensured fixed penalty notices - which had had little effect in curbing shoplifting - could be used only when dealing with first-time offenders.

BBC: Anne McIntosh MP

With that promise in hand, the bank would make the purchase and immediately sell it onto the buyer at a mark-up, agreeing the buyer could pay, say, three months after goods are delivered--in effect, trade finance at a fixed rate with legal protection against default on the one side and loan sharking on the other.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Earlier this week, the Council of Mortgage Lenders said the main effect of FLS so far was to make fixed-rate mortgage deals, which account for about two-thirds of all new mortgage borrowing, a bit cheaper than before.

BBC: Bank of England

"The immediate knock-on effect has been the collapse of savings rates across easy access notice accounts and fixed bonds, " said Sylvia Waycot of Moneyfacts, the financial information provider.

BBC: Bank of England

Although a member of the UN observer mission reckons that loyalist forces include at least two combat brigades that have been held in reserve, apart from fixed-wing bombers and chemical weapons, activists report that much of the Sunni rank and file is in effect idle.

ECONOMIST: Syria after the big bomb