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.
In Wales, Glas Cymru is a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee, set up after the collapse of the privately owned Hyder in 2001.
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.
Similarly to Example 5.5, we provide a counterexample below to show that, for the given mapping F, neither the conditions in Theorem 5.6, nor the conditions in Theorem 5.8, guarantee the set of fixed points of F to be chain complete.
To guarantee a set of independent variables the loop currents must be those associated with a certain set of loops.
I guarantee the set of these foods will be so small that you will lose weight (and possibly starve).
As currently structured, Medicaid guarantees a set of benefits to everybody who qualifies.
Justice William O. Douglas, writing for the Griswold majority, reasoned that "specific guarantees" set forth in the Bill of Rights have "penumbras, formed by emanations" from general (nontextual) "guarantees that help give [the guarantees in the Bill of Rights] life and substance".
