41.   Everybody has a fixed amount of time to live.

42.   For example, graduates can pay a percentage of their income, rather than a fixed amount, allowing them to take low-paying jobs.

43.   For retirees, Medicare would set aside a fixed amount of money for beneficiaries to use to purchase insurance and pay for other medical costs.

44.   Francis Fishwick, of the Cranfield School of Management, says that consumers spend a fixed amount on books regardless of price changes.

45.   From these pooled savings, pensions would be paid in fixed amounts promised in advance.

46.   He paid the networks a fixed amount of money for each veteran the network treated independent of the diagnosis, giving them a powerful incentive to spend money wisely.

47.   He was alluding to a Republican proposal to give the elderly a fixed amount of money and let them use it to buy health insurance on the private market.

48.   HMOs make money only when their cost of treating a patient is less than the fixed amount they receive for each patient.

49.   HMOs are now paid a fixed amount in each market, determined by Medicare.

50.   In another case, a nursing home billed Medicare separately for routine services already included in the fixed amount paid by the government for each day of care.