In the Medicare arena, the choice is between a Democratic approach that wants to retain Medicare as a guaranteed set of benefits with the government paying its share of the costs even if costs rise, and a Republican approach that wants to limit the government's spending to a defined level, relying on untested market forces to drive down insurance costs.
In contrast, the $16 million wind project planned for Madison, N.Y., a rural town of 2,800 people, is being built on speculation, without a guaranteed set of customers, by PG&E Generating, which owns a fleet of conventional coal- and gas-powered plants and some hydroelectric dams around the country and sells power on the open market.
The struggle in the relatively protected orchestra world reflects a trend elsewhere in American life: the gradual disappearance of a guaranteed, set amount of money for retirees every month, often replaced by 401 k -type investment plans in which employees contribute to their own individual retirement accounts and take whatever the markets dish out, good or bad.
In the big-government social democracies like those of Western Europe, government is expected to guarantee a set of universal public services — from health care to child care to pensions — that are considered basic rights of citizenry.
Anyway, all definitions share some key points: a self-adaptive system has to be able to react on its own, by dynamically adapting its behavior, to guarantee a set of quality of service (QoS) requirements.
He asked Mr. Dunne for a guarantee, a set amount of money for one year, to come to the firm.
As currently structured, Medicaid guarantees a set of benefits to everybody who qualifies.
While the U.S. continues to be mired in political gridlock over health-care reform, India is trying to guarantee a broad set of health benefits to its citizens, building on the creative efforts of leaders like Mazumdar-Shaw.
As is the case with maximum likelihood estimation, the optimization algorithm (k-means) does not necessarily guarantee that a set of parameter values uniquely maximizes the log-likelihood.
Worse for Romney is that by releasing only two years of returns, he guarantees a fresh set of headlines going forward – whether he turns over several more years of information or not.
They had different backgrounds and temperaments and perspectives, and if you gave them something to think about that they did not ordinarily think about — like hurricanes, or jet engines, or metastatic cancer — you were guaranteed a fresh set of eyes.
