Behind their impenetrable mountains, language, social structure and the whole way of life were distinct.

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The Lion City's secret to culinary success and, indeed, its whole way of life, has always been to adopt, adapt and improve.

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Peasants, workmen and students were among those who believed that a whole way of life, as well their own livelihoods, was threatened by the march of modernisation.

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Consumers in urban environments agonize, indeed, over which cars to buy to fit their lifestyles, but BMW is upping the ante: the German automaker is designing a whole way of life around a car.

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And so that day at the track, I was watching a whole sporting way of life come to an end.

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The whole basic way of life really appealed to me.

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Now, lots of companies have a brand purpose, as they should, but not a whole lot of companies have identified such a simple way to bring this purpose to life in such a personal and tangible way.

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The problem is buried in the fine print of universal life policies, widely promoted since the 1980s as a new and improved version of the old-fashioned whole life insurance product our grandparents relied on as the surest way to save for retirement.

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Finally, they used mutual whole life insurance as a way to safely accumulate a nest egg while simultaneously protecting their families in case of early, untimely death.

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