Electricity markets are similar to a network of water pools that are connected to each other by fixed size pipes.
Playback is limited to the native media player -- no YouTube greatest hits on top of your email just yet -- but the window can be moved around the screen and at its fixed size covers just under a sixth of the full screen.
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Ms. Roney: If you look at weddings, America is a fixed-size market.
But many other countries kept prices fixed and increased the size of their subsidies.
And competition between Google, Facebook, Yahoo, fixed and mobile operators to seize control of the data opportunities of a global and very large customer base in mobile (at least 4 times the size of the fixed line internet population) is impacting on other sectors.
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They not only indicate the degree of forex intervention in China, but also the size of Chinese official investments in fixed-income markets overseas, most notably into U.S. Treasurys.
But the size of the stores remains an expensive piece of fixed overhead.
"At the root of the euro upheaval is a balance of payment crisis caused by the cumulative effects of a 13-year-old one-size-fits-all monetary policy and a fixed exchange rate for a collection of disparate countries in very different stages of economic and structural development, " he argues.
The emerging markets fixed income product line is likely to triple or even quadruple in size by the end of the current decade.
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The idea is that if you band with a group of people you know and trust and each agrees to contribute a fixed amount every week for a number of weeks equal to the size of the group, every person can have their turn to take the collective pool.
One example: In 2005 OnStar detected and fixed a problem in the electronic ventilation system in GM's 2006 full-size SUVs.
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