Wage taxes penalize performance-based contracts more heavily than fixed compensation.
He suggested that the missiles should be based in heavily defended fixed sites of a bunker-style design similar to the massive submarine pens then under construction in occupied France and Norway.
In this, and the 2010 state of the union to follow, Obama focused heavily on fixing the economy: promising job growth and recovery in the housing and stock markets.
While it was investing heavily in fixing those, what we're hearing from Microsoft is a very pragmatic message: it simply wasn't worth the investment in engineering resources anymore.
Intriguingly, the original version of this episode, broadcast in May in Britain, fixed heavily on the 1966 arrival of Jimi Hendrix in London, and his dual role as crucible of everything that had gone before and avatar of all that was to follow.
In normal times, only well-capitalized insurers tend to promote fixed annuities heavily, to avoid stretching their resources too thin.
But then the people at the Quicken Loans Arena, where the Convention will be held, announced, rather alarmed, that their rule against heavily armed spectators was fixed.
At ModernLink on Bond Street, Mr. Phillips fixed his heavily lidded eyes on a 1950s desk designed by the Danish couple Edvard and Tove Kindt-Larsen, made from a single piece of rosewood ($14,000).
However, if the exchange rate is fixed or heavily managed, as has been the case in Ukraine, the instability of a national currency could build up for a long time without being noticed until it suddenly manifests itself in a devaluation episode, which, in the end, shows up as a spike in domestic inflation.
In the PDS, patient fees are fixed and heavily subsidised.
