So, while we absolutely maintain a mandate of providing income to our shareholders, we wanted there to be a little less of an emphasis on an idea that there would be a fixed income payment on a quarterly basis.

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Google had run ads with its search results for a while, but on a fixed-fee basis.

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For all its success, for instance, Oracle Japan sells its databases through other Japanese software houses, which continue to charge for their services (now packaged with an Oracle database) on a fixed-price basis.

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So, we just felt that because the fund strives for capital appreciation, as well as income, we found that there was a little bit of misnomer or misunderstanding regarding a fixed dividend payment on a regular basis.

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Instead of charging royalties like the majors, Integral works on the basis of a fixed term contract.

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This would be expected on a widespread basis, because the Terra would have a fixed, inflation proof value, due to its 100% commodity backing.

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In China fixed investment (on a GDP-consistent basis) is running more than 20% higher than a year ago, real consumer spending in urban areas is up by almost 11% and car sales have surged by 70%.

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The financing covers purchases of a fixed amount of hardware, plus additional capacity on an as-needed basis.

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ETPs are now available for a wide range of equity asset classes, sub-classes, styles and sectors as well as fixed-income, commodity and foreign currency categories on a long and short basis.

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Your argument is that almost all administrative cost is fixed and thus on what you define as total cost the private sector administrative cost on a per member basis is lower.

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