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Floating exchange rates nearly wrecked the single market, while the system of semi-fixed exchange rates – the ERM – collapsed because what it meant in practice was every member state having to shadow German economic policy.

Europe takes an inspiring leap but Britain has a lesson to learn | Will hutton 2011

There are no perfect solutions for this completely imperfect economic travesty, and there is no faultless foresight concerning the crisis before us, but there is some awfully good hindsight about the last eight years of tax cuts and de-regulation that got us into the fix in which we are semi-fixed.

IT IS NOT PERMANENT 2009

Q Does that mean that -- fixed and semi-fixed positions?

Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry ITY National Archives 1996

MR. MCCURRY: Well, the cruise missile attacks, launched at the President's direction, focused on fixed and semi-fixed sites, principally SA-2, SA-3 sites.

Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry ITY National Archives 1996

LONDON - News of a strong rise in German money supply sent fresh jitters through currency markets, prompting France to deny rumours that Europe's system of semi-fixed exchange rates was about to be suspended.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

Fixed ammunition was usual for the lighter field pieces by the end of the 1700's, while the bigger guns used "semi-fixed."

Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America Albert Manucy

It was secured to the ball with a pair of metal straps to make "semi-fixed" ammunition; then, if the neck of the powder bag were tied around the sabot, the result was one cartridge, containing powder, sabot, and ball, called "fixed" ammunition.

Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America Albert Manucy

By this date, of course, although the principles of muzzle loading had not changed, actual loading of the gun was greatly simplified by using fixed and semi-fixed ammunition.

Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America Albert Manucy

I guess what I'm curious to understand is when you look at your guidance of volumes up say 2% for aggregates, how does that adjust for the fact that state budgets are at best semi-fixed on a dollar perspective and you've got pretty substantial inflationary component in liquid asphalts which actually essentially deflates your real purchasing power?

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So it is roughly in that 60% area and there's fixed in semi-fixed and there's lots of things that can get in there but that's a good benchmark.

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