Sentences with phrase «used as ballast»

The bridge is considered to be an unofficial monument to the loss of life: bodies were literally used as ballast.

Scientists are also investigating why outbreaks of exotic organisms have been reported only in the past 20 years, when water has been used as ballast for more than a century.

Rats, the world's foremost invasive species, have traveled the world with explorers and traders; so have tropical fire ants, which genetic studies suggest have hitchhiked from southwestern Mexico to Asia and beyond starting in the 16th century in soil used as ballast in Spanish ships.

Not exact matches

But it's possible to ballast a portfolio using fixed income as well, and not just through Treasuries.

Keke's lap was so fast because his moustache could be used as movable ballast.

The fossa is as agile as a squirrel, he said, using its luxuriant tail for ballast and balance when leaping from branch to branch.

They also outlast equivalent compact fluorescent lightbulbs but use 50 percent less energy and skip the toxic mercury required as ballast.

Shot on 35 mm film using only available light, «Ballast» is a profoundly American film that's nonetheless rooted in the European tradition of improvised, lo - fi naturalism (as in, say, the work of Belgium's Dardenne brothers).

The use of electronics in most cars came along later, such as electronic ignition only became common place in cars in the 80's and those were with ballast resistors which was a common fail point.

But it's possible to ballast a portfolio using fixed income as well, and not just through Treasuries.

Bonds as ballast — Let's examine the conventional wisdom by first looking at the historical ballast performance of bonds using FIRECalc again.

But there are times, like right now, where cash is nearly as good as bonds, and can be used just as effectively as bonds for the short - term ballast portion of your portfolio.

But there are times, like right now, where cash is nearly as good as bonds, and can be used just as effectively as bonds for the short - term ballast portion of your portfolio (as discussed more in Articles 7.3 and 8.3).

The approach of using cash for ballast now and bonds for ballast when interest rates rise, does not completely address the advantages of cash as a reserve for short term expenditures and investment opportunities.

With cash as ballast, the above graph shows the ride along the way is much less bumpy than using 100 % stocks and not too different than using larger amounts of bond ballast.

The end result using less cash ballast is nearly the same as using larger amounts of intermediate term bond ballast.

When intermediate bonds yields become measurably better than cash, say about 4 %, it is probably time to reconsider using bonds as ballast instead of cash.

Going a step further, you can approximate the effect of bond ballast using smaller amounts of cash as ballast instead.

Cash can serve as portfolio stabilizer just like bonds, and because cash is so stable, you can use less cash as ballast and achieve the same outcome as more bond ballast in a mixed portfolio.

Sun Breeze Hotel: ballast stones used as patio stones, recovered from behind Ambergris Caye in the area known as Bota Lastre (literally means to throw ballast overboard).

The oldest Anglican church in Central America stands in Belize City, a monument to the slaves who built it between 1812 and 1820 using bricks originally carried as ships» ballast.

I was sort of surprised when in the early 90s the Jewel food chain in the Chicago area went on the gov's Green Lights program, got a low interest loan to change all their conventional tube lights to ones with reflectors and electronic ballasts (reducing lighting electricity by 3/4 & saving the food chain $ 1 million per year, paying off the loan within the 1st year), that they didn't use that as a marketing strategy: «Jewel cares about the Earth!»

Ocean acidification, rising ocean temperatures, declining sea ice, and other environmental changes interact to affect the location and abundance of marine fish, including those that are commercially important, those used as food by other species, and those used for subsistence.16, 17,18,122,19,20,21 These changes have allowed some near - surface fish species such as salmon to expand their ranges northward along the Alaskan coast.124, 125,126 In addition, non-native species are invading Alaskan waters more rapidly, primarily through ships releasing ballast waters and bringing southerly species to Alaska.5, 127 These species introductions could affect marine ecosystems, including the feeding relationships of fish important to commercial and subsistence fisheries.

I myself feel more and more that to use it without long explanations causes too much confusion and that as a label it has become more of a ballast than a source of strength...