Adjustable Clock

It's adjustable.

It's like resetting a thermostat.

List of adjustable options

Doctor said it was bad for my thermostat.

Josh Silver demos adjustable liquid filled eyeglasses

I mean, come on, I'm not going to turn down my thermostat.

Well, I can let you have an adjustable spanner if that's what you mean.

And I use a heat mat to sit the bath on and a thermostat to regulate it.

Expenditures totalling 9,400 were incurred for the purchase of 56 chairs, 20 desks, 14 computer work tables, 15 filing cabinets and 5 adjustable shelves.

Gas became artificially cheap, consumers seldom bothered to turn the thermostat down, and producers stopped investing. As a result Argentina, once a thriving gas exporter, had to seek imports to overcome domestic shortages.

Josh Silver delivers his brilliantly simple solution for correcting vision at the lowest cost possible adjustable, liquid filled lenses. At TEDGlobal 2009, he demos his affordable eyeglasses and reveals his global plan to distribute them to a billion people in need by 2020.

Unfortunately, the development and use of macroprudential tools faces considerable economic and political obstacles. The Bank of Spain s attempt to implement adjustable capital requirements for banks, through its system of dynamic provisioning, did little to deter aggressive lending during the country s property boom.

9. Takes note of the efforts of central banks, regulatory bodies and financial institutions to mitigate the global economic impacts of financial volatility resulting from adjustable rate mortgage losses and related imbalances in developed economies, and encourages those bodies to further continue such efforts

Actual expenditures for the reporting period amounted to 136,900, consisting of the purchase of (a) protective ballistic visors with spare adjustable headbands ( 42,100) (b) miscellaneous components for mine clearing equipment ( 9,900) and (c) the settlement of outstanding charges related to the prior period ( 84,900).

And by the way, the assumption that we can safely control the Earth's awesomely complex climate system as if it had a thermostat, making the planet not too hot, not too cold, but just right sort of Goldilocks style this is pure fantasy, and it's not coming from the climate scientists.

For example, while a fully floating currency would create a beneficial combination of discipline and flexibility, it might best be delayed in favor of an adjustable ( crawling ) peg to some anchor currencies. This would buy time to build credibility and, more important, to help keep public debt under control.

New Web based platforms allow ordinary people without money or special skills to share their cars, spare bedrooms, or even do it yourself tools, thus challenging the dominance of global corporations. The Internet of Things is connecting simple household items like a thermostat to the Web, helping owners to save money and even reduce their carbon emissions.

7.1.1.7 Packages containing dangerous goods and unpackaged articles of dangerous goods shall be secured by suitable means capable of restraining the goods (such as fastening straps, sliding slatboards, adjustable brackets) in the transport unit in a manner that will prevent any movement during transport which would change the orientation of the packages or cause them to be damaged.

Answering this question requires, first and foremost, an understanding of the costs and benefits of various exchange rate systems. The International Monetary Fund was established 70 years ago to manage an adjustable peg system a hybrid system in which exchange rates were usually fixed to the US dollar, but could be adjusted occasionally to improve the country s competitive position in export markets.

The indictment contains four counts that Greenspan wrongly cheered the growth of non standard adjustable rate mortgages, which fueled the housing bubble that he wrongly endorsed Bush s tax cuts that he should have reined in the stock market bubble of the 1990 s and that he should have done the same with the real estate bubble of the 2000 s.

The entire sub prime market is largely a decade old innovation the word sub prime did not exist in any language before 1994 built on such things as option adjustable rate mortgages (option ARM s), new kinds of collateralized debt obligations, and structured investment vehicles. Previously, private investors in the US simply did not lend to mortgage seekers whose credit history was below prime.

3. Requests the Board to review the benefit of the two track system vis à vis the United States dollar track for both the beneficiaries and the Fund as a whole, taking into account the effect of the adjustable minimum guarantee at 80 per cent of the United States dollar track amount on the utilization rate of the two track system, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its sixty first session

But Greenspan would have served the country and the world better if he had been somewhat more paternalist in slowing the growth of non standard adjustable rate mortgages. He would have served the country and the world better had he been less of a loyal Republican working the inside game of trying to convince Bush s political advisors that good policy was important, and more of a nonpartisan steward of America s long term fiscal stability.