Yet the contractor had agreed to provide insurance at a fixed price as part of the deal.
They cut back on their medical costs by visiting doctors less and taking their prescription medicine less frequently after the co-payment increase, due in part to their fixed incomes.
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Moreover, complete cancellation of the program would cost the taxpayer huge sums in termination costs provided for as part of the fixed price contracts that would have to be breached.
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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.
Companies might want to maintain production anyway in part to recapture certain fixed costs.
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One of our major focuses is capturing more flows in the postretirement sector, where fixed income will be a critical part of that asset allocation.
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In recent years, the government has relaxed regulations on part-time work, fixed-term contracts and temporary-work agencies.
In addition, the government has imposed new social-security contributions on low-wage jobs, and tightened restrictions on the self-employed, part-time work and fixed-term contracts.
It didn't get off to the best of starts as at 07:30 BST the Central Line had a signal failure and had to be part-suspended while engineers fixed it.
That 50s area ideal of a part-time job and a fixed up car is simply gone with the wind.
Governments were helped in keeping rates down because of the capital controls they ran as part of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates.
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Many people, such as bond-market guru Bill Gross, the managing director of fixed-income manager PIMCO, have said that part of the blame in the mortgage crisis lies with the rating agencies who gave mortgage securities high markets.
Intesa Sanpaolo has reportedly suggested to Italy's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, that the government buy Telecom Italia's fixed-line infrastructure, the most politically sensitive part of the business, ensuring it remains Italian and allowing the firm to pay down debt.
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Now if there is an agreement some are saying a major part of the eurozone crisis would have been fixed.
Most Britons, for instance, still have variable-rate mortgages, although the proportion with fixed-rate home loans is rising (thanks, in part, to lower inflation).
Labour and the Lib Dems both promised fixed-term parliaments in their election manifestos and the Tories, as part of the agreement with their new partners, have now come into line.
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In other words, when investment banks had ample capital prior to the financial crisis in 2008, part of their role was to function as a facilitator of fixed income and equity markets, buying securities with their own capital as prices fell and selling securities with their own capital as prices rose.
But with NTL due to change its name to Virgin Media next year, NTL also has UK commercial broadcaster ITV in its sights as a takeover target, part of its plans to offer television as well as broadband, fixed-line and mobile telecommunications services.
All these issues are part of the inefficiency of the health care system that has to be fixed.
The most significant part of the program is its open-ended nature rather than a fixed amount or time period for its asset purchases.
Part of the very high APRs is precisely because we are adding a fixed fee, charged for a short period of time, up into an APR.
He said it was "not true" British nationals had not been allowed to apply for work on that part of the contract but the Italian firm had drawn on its "fixed workforce in order to get the work done".
Globalization allowed the U.S. to specialize in the creative aspect of things, the risk-taking production of concepts and ideas--that is, the scalable part of production, in which more income can be generated from the same fixed assets through innovation.
The structure of the charges can vary depending on payment method (by direct debit, pre-payment meter, or credit transfer such as cheque), on whether it is an internet-only tariff, which part of the country the customer lives in, if the deal involves a fixed price, when the deal was launched, how long it lasts, and so on.
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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For its part, Intel is apparently well aware of the problem, and it has already fixed the vulnerability on some newer boards like the DQ45, but others still in widespread use (like the DQ35 pictured above) have seemingly been left hanging waiting for a fix of some sort.
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While Telmex appears as a slow growth, possibly declining asset, the acquisition is part of a strategic group to face increased competition from Grupo Televisa, which has been poaching fixed-line customers.
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Steinmetz suggests buying and holding long-duration fixed income, such as 10-year sovereigns, and rolling them out, staying out in the same part of the yield curve.
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