With electrodes fixed to his skull, Mr Styffe fixed his mind on game characters, such as a juggler or a Pac-Man-like blob fleeing ghosts in a maze.

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Picking the right dividend stocks is subtle though, and requires, ironically, a fixed-income mind-set.

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Having built up a leading company from scratch, many would expect Mazumdar-Shaw to have her mind fixed solely on the business.

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Both became fixed in the public mind as fearful, even disastrous accidents.

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Indians, once fixed in the American mind's eye as bands of howling savages bent on doing no good to John Wayne, are nowadays more often seen as the devoted children of Mother Earth, determined to preserve the planet for future generations.

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Next year's proposals are already fixed in Mr Barnes's mind.

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In his mind he saw his fixer-upper all fixed up, a gleaming, wood-polished house, a stop on the Oak Park landmark tour, and, sliding down the bannister, into his providing, fatherly arms, Eleanor.

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Now on Saperstein's mind, and the minds of millions of other fixed-income investors, is the multitrillion-dollar question of whether the U.S. Treasury and municipal bond markets are on the verge of blowing up, too, or merely suffering a bout of indigestion.

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The example I have in mind now is my study of the international adjustment mechanisms under fixed and floating exchange rates.

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Keep in mind, that this was a group that grew up in the fixed commission era of paying 25 cents a share.

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