Typically based on a particular money market rate or the average interest rate in a particular trading market, different index rates are used for each type of loan. In the United States, for example, the prime rate is the most common factor used to determine interest rates for variable rate loans.
Edward Teller (1908-2003) was a Hungarian-born American theoretical physicist. Teller, along with Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner, helped urge President Roosevelt to develop an atomic bomb program in the United States. Teller joined the Los Alamos Laboratory in 1943 as group leader in the Theoretical Physics Division.
Mary Anne Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda, most of which are set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight. She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure that her works would be taken seriously. Female authors were publishe