These are investment accounts that look suspiciously similar to plain old mutual funds but, dressed up as a form of life insurance, get certain tax benefits.
Variable annuities are a form of life insurance that includes a lump-sum death benefit and tax-deferred investments, often mutual funds, which are supposed to provide income during a client's lifetime.
It looked for life in the form of microbial life by looking at respiration products, by looking at how a microscopic form of life would ingest atmospheric gas and exhale gases.
But I think that a lot of the discussions that call this a completely new form of life are getting completely ahead of themselves.
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In all cases it is clear that software is a form of artificial life, and each project has its own distinctive culture.
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He went to Rome in 1209 to propose to Pope Innocent III a plan for a new form of Christian life, Benedict said.
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Within their bodies they harbor highly productive algae -- a form of marine plant life -- that can "fix" carbon, use the energy of the sun to conduct photosynthesis and produce sugars.
Today, Science Magazine, one of the top scientific journals and the original publisher of the GFAJ-1 work, is publishing two new papers that completely demolish the argument that GFAJ-1 is a completely new form of life.
Jail break films have long been a staple offering of Hollywood but, in a real life reversal of form, the Los Angeles Times reported that a former prisoner of the California State Prison in Sacramento, one Marvin Ussery, attempted to break into the jail.
This is the first example of a life form that can live with a different set of basic chemicals.
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He says that "corridos" have traditionally been a form of chronicle about social life in Mexico.
'Man is movement' is Jacques' slogan and his son seems to have turned it into both an art form and a way of life.
Cullen, who is a confirmed entry for the 10K event, is in the form of her life after setting a new Irish indoor 3000 metres record at the weekend.
Viewing philanthropy as a form of strategic intervention in the life of an institution, he tries to obtain maximum benefit for the amount of money he puts in.
The Optical group has a little life in the form of Finisar (FNSR) and JDS Uniphase (JDSU).
But still it is hard to imagine he will walk away from a trial without some form of sanction, and with his life and career changed forever by four shots fired into a toilet door.
Here lemurs and other wildlife showed no fear of the local Tandroy tribesmen who lived a traditional life with the zebu cattle that form the basis of their wealth.
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Reimbursement for end-of-life counseling has recently returned, in the form of a Medicare regulation to take effect January 1, 2011.
Yet even Greenspan, who for much of his life was something of a libertarian, fell prey to this form of governmental narcissism.
In a laboratory at Cambridge in 1968, he first saw life created outside the womb in the form of a human blastocyst, an embryo that has developed for five to six days after fertilisation.
The trial heard April had a relatively mild form of cerebral palsy "but that did not stop her leading a full and active life".
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It starts as a fifties war-of-the-worlds pastiche: an alien life-form arrives in a meteor and quickly mutates, threatening to destroy Arizona as we know it.
One very familiar form of communications however could be due a completely new lease of life.
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Hard to see how that form of knowledge would equip anyone for life in a modern technological society.
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My dream is to give Mom the gift of life -- in the form of a bone marrow donor.
Although life is, in essence, a complicated form of carbon chemistry, living creatures cannot process carbon in its elemental form.
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Permanent insurance is a far more complex product that combines life insurance with some form of savings plan and is often designed to stay in force for life.
Life on Mars could have taken the form of a microorganism that used the minerals as an energy source.
Dr. SPIESEL: Once you get chicken pox, for the rest of your life you'll carry it in a latent form, the chicken pox virus.
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