If the Bush tax cuts are not extended, in my opinion it is almost a lock that we go into recession next year, unemployment goes to 12%, and underemployment gets even worse.
All of this begs a question: Is it really fair to basically lock in most of a players' lifetime income based on his performance as a college senior and his draft position?
Network effects are real, and it follows that lock-in is a possibility.
For the wine drinker, buying a contract is simply a way to lock in a price (gambling it won't get cheaper with time).
Mr. Tebow could have a larger ticket impact in Jacksonville given his roots in the area, and it is being reported that this marriage is a virtual lock for 2013.
Experts say it is increasingly important for patients to lock in a primary-care doctor soon because of expected increased demand for physicians starting in 2014, when the new federal health-overhaul law will add millions of people to the health-insurance rolls.
Were I to portray this with a visual image it would have to be that of a boat in a lock: life is slowly and ineluctably raised by time seeping in from all sides.
They are also motivated by a peculiar notion that it is necessary to "lock in" these agreements.
Much to our dismay, the AIRAVE requires that a GPS lock is found before it begins operating, and it requires that said lock puts you within the United States of America.
It will gain a fixed-line arm, but that is no recompense for what it will give up: its lock on the massive mobile market, encompassing two-thirds of Chinese customers and an even higher share of new subscribers.
It's not clear why Sprint would've decided to kill it off, because all that's left is a gimped lock screen (with the option of using Android's regular pattern lock).
But governments are doing themselves and their financial industries a disservice by contemplating entering into FATCA agreements with the U.S. Backlash against the law is growing, and Treasury is in a race against time to lock it into place before a repeal effort can gain steam.
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Where lock-in is a factor, it is wrong to suppose that consumers and producers will blunder on as if it were not.
What really makes Louisiana stand out is that it has built a system that pays local sheriffs to lock people up, making reform almost impossible.
After deciding in the early 1990s to concentrate on laptop and notebook computers, it is now far ahead of rivals like Compaq and IBM with a lock on 20% of the world market.
The stakes lock up a company's capital and it is hard to claim they spread risk.
One implication of this strategy is that it makes the lock-in to Salesforce stronger than for a packaged application.
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Definitely, it is a time to be very selective, and I will look to be lock in some profits on existing positions next week.
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But note that lock-in is inefficient (that is, it is a kind of market failure) only if the inferior product survives despite the fact that the benefits of switching would exceed the costs.
When using GLONASS satellites, the time it takes for the receiver to "lock on" to a position is (on average) approximately 20 percent faster than using GPS. And when using both GPS and GLONASS, the receiver has the ability to lock on to 24 more satellites than using GPS alone.
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He has resisted the option of recalling former captain Steve Borthwick, although it is possible the Saracens lock could still be promoted from the England Saxons as a temporary replacement for Lawes.
It is vital that the solutions built on the private cloud do not become a point of lock in.
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Even the lock screen is self-explanatory -- it's depicted as a light switch.
Believe it or not, it is not the correct credential (the key or the code) that actually unlocks a lock!
It was used to decode a lock with four different rows of pin tumblers and is as effective as anything available today.
This is a software lock so you can't copy the song and pass it on.
We know, there was an absolute flood of news from Mobile World Congress today, but day one in Spain has finally come to a close, and it looks like Microsoft is flexing all its muscle to try and lock up partners and rejoin the fight for mobile dominance.
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