That said, it's no longer the final salary which determines the pension paid in retirement.
The BBC's charter, which determines the BBC's budget and the ground rules for how it operates, is up for review in 2006.
Schneck is also going after the vision business, laying claim to the treatment of contact lens surfaces, which determines the gas permeability of soft contacts.
Hence, it may be the lack of fossil fuels which determines the real amount of all other minerals that can be brought onto the world markets.
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The draft lottery, which determines the order of the first 14 teams drafting in the June 28 draft, will be held in New York Wednesday night and will be televised.
The first is that the sheer size of the emerging giants' labour forces has shifted the global capital-labour ratio (which determines the relative rewards of capital and workers) massively against workers as a group.
Meanwhile, several Australian players admitted they were unaware that the competition was not being played under the controversial golden-point rule which determines the outcome of drawn games in the NRL and State of Origin.
It is calculated using the same blend of prices by which IDC determines the average software unit price, including: retail, volume license, OEM, free, open-source, etc.
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Last week, Apple received a favorable outcome when the ITC issued its claim construction order, siding with Apple's interpretations of two patents -- for those who aren't familiar, claim construction is the process by which the judge determines the meaning of specific terms in the claims, and it often has great influence on findings of infringement (or non-infringement).
Google employs proprietary technology and the details of its ranking algorithm, the process which determines what tops the list when search results are returned, is a closely guarded secret.
Now the internal rate of return, or IRR, matters to us, because it in turn determines the terms of the so-called contract for difference agreed by the government with EDF, which in turn determines the price that consumers (us again) will pay for nuclear-generated electricity.
So the SEC determines which violations the public should know about and which should be kept secret.
But as nonsensical as it might be, the plan to make drugs cheaper by taking them across the border and back highlights the degree to which patent law determines the profit margins of pharmaceutical companies.
Every corporate initiative will have more people saying no than saying yes, until momentum, or the chief executive officer, determines which is the right way to proceed.
The algorithm is that secret software machine that determines which videos the home page suggests for you, based on your watch history, trending videos, and the most popular videos on the site.
And she warned reform of the Barnett formula, which determines how much money the assembly receives from Westminster, was needed if fiscal powers were to be devolved successfully.
Lots of people beyond America's borders are affected by this election, and they all feel they know - even have a stake in - the country which still determines so much around the world.
Two of the 10 votes on the Federal Open Market Committee, which determines whether to lower the rate, indicated a preference for leaving the rate at 2.25%.
Depending on where you live and whether you are subject to the federal alternative minimum tax (which determines whether you bear the full brunt of your state tax bill or can share it with Uncle Sam), the state tax penalty could easily be worth 35 to 50 basis points.
But it is the intensity of battle, rather than the actions of the authorities, which determines how long a World Cup will last in the memory.
The transfer of radio signals to and from the antenna and the radio receiver and transmitters, and the efficiency with which that is accomplished determines how well the device will perform.
The average price, which the survey determines through tabulations of prices at thousands of gas stations nationwide, is nearly 12 cents lower than it was a year ago.
Instead, the key factor behind export growth is the general health of the global economy, which determines how many units of Japan's competitively but not cannibalistically priced exports the world buys.
The consumer price index, which determines that cost of living adjustment, is too generous, according to a study commissioned by the Senate Finance Committee.
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Richard Nicholls is media, technology and telecoms account director with the Future Foundation, which identifies and forecasts social and consumer trends and determines the extent of their impacts on markets, services, brands and products.
The Treasury determines which banks participate and how much they will get.
The roses will be graded another three times during the week, as the team determines which ones will hit their mark on Derby day.
The tax rate, particularly the marginal tax rate, which is the tax rate that applies to the last dollar earned, determines how much the producer is allowed to keep out of what he or she produces.
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The judge ordered the former lawmaker to turn herself in 10 days after the Bureau of Prisons determines which prison she'll serve her sentence in.
Apple created a similar marketplace called the App Store for its iPhone, but the rules are different in that the company not only determines which developers sell there, but also which applications get sold.
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