71.   In the swaps market, traders cited some banks that had been receiving fixed rates yesterday as seeking to pay fixed rates this morning.

72.   In response, Congress abandoned cost-based reimbursement for inpatient care, adopting a fixed rate for each illness.

73.   In the swaps market, Japanese commercial banks and U.S. brokerages sought to receive fixed rates as bond yields sank.

74.   Investors snapped up the notes amid the positive news, allowing the state to lower its borrowing cost by cutting yields on the fixed rate portion of the securities.

75.   It also sold three-year and five-year notes that pay a fixed rate.

76.   It pays a fixed rate of interest until its redemption date then steps up, or increases, to a floating rate for the life of the security.

77.   Jeffrey Sachs of the Harvard Institute for International Development pushes for Brazil to drop its fixed rate, allowing the real to float on currency markets.

78.   Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Harvard Institute for International Development, argues that fixed rates do not work well with unlimited capital flows.

79.   Last year, their growing popularity allowed the housing market to remain strong, even as fixed rates were climbing sharply.

80.   Many companies also compare them to bonds, with a guaranteed principal and a fixed rate of return.