Mr. Obama's plan is purely for fixed, not floating, rates at the 10-year Treasury rate plus 0.93% or 2.93% depending on the type of Stafford loan, and it has no rate cap.
Not the floating Buicks that my elderly aunt and uncle drove in the 1980s.
The yuan, also known as the renmimbi, is not a free-floating currency so the market does not determine its value.
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This exchange rate liberalization has continued and while the ruble is not a freely floating currency, it is much closer to being one that it was in the past.
The RMB is not a free floating currency like the Brazilian real or the euro, but the beauty behind buying the Chinese currency is that the government has said that it will appreciate the currency each year.
Some economies would be hurt, but overall most emerging economies are in better shape than a couple of years ago, with large foreign-exchange reserves, and floating, not fixed exchange rates, making it easier for economies to adjust.
Automakers believe currency exchange rates should be established in the floating market, not by government intervention.
Most floating voters do not oppose Mr Koizumi's reform ideas so much as his failure to carry them out.
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Surprisingly, floating realignment might not only be designed for competitive balance.
It also suggests why floating rates did not deter cross-border investment.
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But unlike the USS Intrepid in New York City or the USS Midway in San Diego, the Enterprise is not destined to become a floating museum.
How the court rules could affect not only homeowners and casinos but floating restaurants, warehouses and fish-processing plants.
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Assuming Mr. Trump is not fibbing, numerous theories are floating about who else might have paid for the poll and why.
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In developing countries with immature financial markets, a freely floating exchange rate may not be sensible because a small number of foreign-exchange trades can cause big swings in currencies.
Investors who like the idea of floating-rate funds but not bank loans have a few other options.
K. Jr. detested the nickname and was not a man fulfilled by pleasure-floating.
Because they are already floating, their collapse does not have any effect on sea levels, according to the Cambridge-based British Antarctic Survey.
In other words, free-floating exchange rates are probably not the best option.
But a floating-rate system is not a free lunch either.
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There were a number of different groups floating around in Iraq that were not under our control, and we didn't want them clashing in a way that could interfere with our operations.
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Given the number of Android handsets floating around, it's not really possible (read: Impossible) for the company to appease everyone, especially since the length of the device's neck needs to be altered based on the phones' screens, meaning they can't just make a modular holder.
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The melting of an ice shelf, which is merely a floating projection into the sea, would not affect sea levels.
Not surprisingly, when Ecuador announced that it was floating the sucre, the currency spiraled down like a deflated balloon -- just as had happened with the Asian currencies.
Richard Fussell should have scored just after the break after Lee Byrne kept in Biggar's long, floating pass but the Ospreys wing could not touch the ball down after barging over the line.
In late December, the citizens of Nago, a town in Okinawa's impoverished rural north, voted by 54% to 46% not to let the American Marine Corps moor a floating helicopter base off the beach, near its existing Camp Schwab.
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For the purposes of floating wind farms, such turbines are not light enough, they are too tall and the rotor blades are too small, according to Mr Bratland's early assessments, made even before the 2.3 megawatt turbine has started delivering electricity through the sea-bed cable that connects it to the Norwegian national grid.
Not to be confused with a house boat which is mobile and can move around a floating home is permanently attached to a dock, is connected to a sewer system and does not have its own means of propulsion.
But it also increases uncertainty for lenders, marina owners and others who need to determine whether something floating on the water is a boat or not.
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