In the current model, students have a fixed amount of time to learn new concepts.
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The notion that you can withdraw a fixed amount every month carries a lot of risk.
"There's a fixed amount of money (from the state) for every student, " says Professor Vlachos.
These plans pay out a fixed amount, regardless of the value of the pension fund.
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The share price has no theoretical ceiling, while the bonds pay a fixed amount.
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Putting too many people in that category would have shortchanged others given a fixed amount to allocate.
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The financing covers purchases of a fixed amount of hardware, plus additional capacity on an as-needed basis.
Labour is pretty much a fixed amount as there are staffing standards and regulations which must be met.
In any economy, the fallacy says, there is only a fixed amount of work (a lump of labour) to do.
The concern, generally, is that billions of speculative dollars are chasing a fixed amount of oil, working to increase commodity prices.
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Traditional pensions are employer-funded plans that pay a fixed amount each month.
In the center would be advocates of a classical gold standard, in which a dollar is defined as a fixed amount of gold.
Metacloud is charging customers a fixed amount per month based on the number of CPUs the customer has hooked up to their service.
The most significant part of the program is its open-ended nature rather than a fixed amount or time period for its asset purchases.
We instead provide them with a fixed amount of dollars that they can use to purchase food in the same locations as everyone else.
This is made worse by an odd pricing system, under which firms charge a fixed amount, instead of billing their customers by the hour.
Meanwhile, higher earners will receive a fixed amount of "protected" pension for each year of service, topped up by the proceeds from their money purchase account.
Those who lose their jobs could withdraw up to a fixed amount per month, with the government providing some basic benefit if the account is exhausted.
In the conventional Stirling engine, a fixed amount of helium is compressed in a cool chamber and then transferred to a chamber heated by an external burner.
This means that, rather than receiving a fixed amount of money every year, pensioners will get an income that depends on the performance of the financial markets.
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No market risk and the implicit (or even explicit) state guarantee: Pay a fixed amount now, and when Junior goes to a state college, his tuition is covered.
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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The borrowing limit thus acts like the trust fund balance in Medicare Part A or Social Security, except that it allows the program to go a fixed amount into the red.
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The turning point arrived in 1999 when the new telecom policy changed the licensing fees from a fixed amount that wireless companies had been struggling to pay to a revenue-sharing model.
It also makes it easier to budget yourself since you can simply give yourself a fixed amount of cash and not allow yourself to go back to the ATM when it runs out.
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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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It sounds like the system will evolve into one where the government signs off on a certain premium increase every year, then a fixed amount of the premium is spent, no more or less.
One spouse could be given special powers, such as a power to withdraw a fixed amount of trust property each year or a power to appoint trust property (in equal or unequal shares) among your descendants.
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The way to meet our demographic challenge is to keep people in the labor force longer, Mr. Shultz says, and not fall for European notions that there is some fixed amount of work to be divided up.
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One implication of the pie metaphor is that wealth is a zero-sum game: there is a fixed amount of houses, cars, medicines, etc. to go around, and the more Steve Jobs gets the less is left for the rest of us.
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