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This type of payment system -- called an "open-loop" payment system -- uses contactless bank cards that give users the opportunity to spend money wherever the card is accepted.

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In the above equation, I suppose you could call Friedman's approach open-loop monetarism.

Scott Sumner vs. Milton Friedman, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

If the body is simply an open-loop furnace, there is no excuse for those results.

Last gasp of the dark ages of nutrition | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

Once we get that hot air, we dump it into a closed loop system and exchange it into an open-loop system, where we can remove the heat.

Data Centers In The Desert 2009

The presence of a report of this nature would take an open-loop process and make it closed-loop process where we could have error detection and correction.

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A basic, open-loop system with one 4x10-foot collection panel and an 80-gallon water tank will cost about $2,000, although this will prove feasible only in warm, sunny climates like Hawaii and southern Florida.

Federal tax credits offer consumers energy incentives 2008

In a direct solar hot-water system (also called an open-loop system), the water that will be used for domestic purposes (washing dishes, bathing, etc.) is circulated directly through the solar collectors to the storage tank.

J.S. McDougall: America Braces for Highest Heating Costs Ever 2008

A basic, open-loop system with one 4x10-foot collection panel and an 80-gallon water tank will cost about $2,000, although this will prove feasible only in warm, sunny climates like Hawaii and southern Florida.

Federal tax credits offer consumers energy incentives 2008

The results illustrate that phosphorus cycles in China, in general, operate in a high-intensive but “open-loop” way.

Phosphorus use in China 2007

The package extends the 1.5 cent per kilowatt hour tax credit for the production of electricity from wind and closed-loop biomass; provides credits for open-loop biomass facilities and coal-biomass cofiring; and provides credits for electricity produced from methane from certain landfills.

Fact Sheet On The Fy2001 Climate Change Budget ITY National Archives 2000