Second, the project is technology-neutral, not locking in to any particular hardware or software.
But the wrong cyber-laws can mean government locking in inferior security technologies and procedures.
Instead of locking in on one stock, a better bet might be with an ETP.
Locking in future profits, Nabors has been signing customers to longer rental contracts at higher prices.
So by locking in savings over 10 years, we are actually paying for the two-year extension.
Some users are locking in prices for metal they will need in the future, he said.
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Locking in bureaucratic responses to this dynamic marketplace will restrict severely the benefits of the Internet.
When a trade moves in our favor, we trail those stops, locking in some of our gains.
This means such investors are in essence locking in a loss on the value of their money.
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Locking in a partner at the beginning helps reduce the financing and exit risk in these companies.
The feds are investigating it for locking in agents exclusively and forbidding them to offer cheaper rival services.
Also, Continental has been one of the best at locking in fuel costs.
Which has been resorting itself already, locking in lots of index points by rebalancing Apple down a notch or two.
In many senses, investors are their own worst enemy as they sell in a panic as markets drop, locking in losses.
Conferences, like concerts, are all about locking in the fans with mutual love, human and perishable, and selling them stuff.
The BP deal guarantees Sempra gas at a discount to the price on the U.S.-Mexico border, locking in a nice spread.
Another tactic: locking in prices with tailored multiyear agreements with formulas governing whether clients grant or refuse a requested rate increase.
It's locking in customers with voice, TV and Internet--everything Verizon might want to offer them a few years down the line.
The odd-lot investor, as the small shareholder is often referred, tends to panic and sell in severe downturns, locking in a loss.
When interest rates were plunging in 2000--03, these geniuses decided to shorten the average maturity instead of locking in long-term low yields.
So, yes, we might indeed be locking in currently low interest rates.
They have been, for example, quite successful at locking in corporate customers.
Instead they ride the index up and then down again without locking in profits or selling losers to reinvest proceeds during the reversion.
Rather than sticking around to smell the roses, funds are locking in gains by selling equities that have made a run in recent months.
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Hedge funds thought they'd been smart by locking in a three-to-four-percentage-point spread by selling protection on those tranches and buying it on less risky ones.
If you are too late with your buy and sell decisions, you could end up locking in big losses and missing out on big rebounds.
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Duke did this with a pair of "peaker" plants it built in Indiana and Ohio, locking in the first year's expected profits before construction was completed.
Democrats would like to use the crisis to push through a Value Added tax and other tax increases, locking in a higher government share of GDP.
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With this feature, investors can hold stocks while receiving protection from market declines and locking in guaranteed pension-like income for life that can rise with the market.
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