The local incentive payments might be regarded as a weighted basket of indicators where the weights emphasise the importance to the funder.
Or do you want to go to dinner?" And so it is that occasionally -- O.K., once a week -- I find myself sitting across from Robert lifting a glass of chardonnay instead of a 10-pound weight, a basket of bread between us and a plate of penne à la vodka on the way.
Test the weight of the basket with appliances--don't overfill or over-weigh the basket or else it will slip off the wall or vanity.
In the short term, the effect on the Gulf states' appetite for greenbacks would not be dramatic, since the dollar would have a big weight in any basket.
The results show that fruit and vegetables are severely lacking (only 10% of total food basket weight instead of 33% recommended) while staples, mainly refined cereals, are given in excess (40% instead of 15%), as well as sugar- or salt-containing food products (9% instead of 2%).
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One approach estimates the implicit de facto basket weights in an OLS regression of the local currency value rate against major currency values.
However, China's openness has limits: it is keeping to itself the weights attached to each currency.Mr Zhou said that the dollar, the yen, the euro and the South Korean won have the biggest weights, but the basket also includes the currencies of Singapore, Britain, Malaysia, Russia, Australia, Thailand and Canada.
