With this feature, investors can hold stocks while receiving protection from market declines and locking in guaranteed pension-like income for life that can rise with the market.
Today it is possible for machines to perform those same tasks, and as quality of life continues to rise in regions that have been the main beneficiary of outsourcing, suddenly the labor is not so cheap.
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And taking care of those basic needs causes a steep rise in life expectancy.
Of course, much of the rise in life expectancy may have had nothing to do with medical research.
That means studying this asteroid could yield greater understanding about the sources of organic molecules and water that gave rise to life.
But take heart in the fact that pharma is still basically where new drugs come from as life expectancy continues to rise!
In a shift from recent years, more VCs expect IT investments to increase than do those who see a rise in Life Sciences and Clean Tech investing.
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But now, in the later innings of his life, he must rise to an unseemly challenge: to salvage his reputation and his fortune, Wilpon must prove that he was a dupe rather than a crook.
As a young adult I did own a Gamecube but I rarely played it, favoring the PS1 and especially the PS2 and the myriad PC games that kept coming out, from DOOM and Quake and other shooters on PC, to Diablo and the many uber-addictive strategy games and then Half-Life 2 and the rise of modern HD PC games, and finally the modern consoles.
Certainly, the best part of the book is Mr Grand's description of the inner workings of his artificial-life software, and the way it mimics biological processes to give rise to all kinds of life-like behaviour.
This exercise price would continue to rise for the life of the option.
Now that life expectancies are on the rise, investors must be prepared to be retired for 30 to 40 years.
Their unhappy conclusion: almost all of the rise in inequality is life-long.
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Life expectancy is also on the rise: Since 1980, women are living longer not only in the West, but in all parts of the world.
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Just as the global rise of English makes life easy for idle Britons or Americans, it breeds complacency among those with English as their second language.
Additionally, in the near-term, a report released earlier this week by Kotak Mahindra Old Mutual Life Insurance says Indian stocks will rise another 15% to a record high by March 2011.
Man battled the elements in Mesopotamia, and the desert and its ways of plunder and raiding pushed against urban life, but the land gave rise to powerful kingdoms: the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Sumerians, the Abbasids.
The rise of Tizen will make life more difficult for Microsoft (MSFT) and Research In Motion (RIMM).
The children who lived at the workhouse in Gressenhall were never expected to rise above their station in life.
We see the rise of the real-life Harlem gangster Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington), who in 1968 went to Northern Thailand, purchased uncut heroin, shipped it to New York, and sold it on the streets at twice the strength and half the price of what the Mafia was selling.
Slow Food was founded in Italy in 1989 to counter the rise of fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and to encourage people to be aware about the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.
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With the incidence of herpes infection on the rise, this could eventually be a life-changing discovery for millions.
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It is true: many beneficial new therapies have extended the average life span and have driven a lot of the rise in costs.
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For one thing, if traffic is to continue to grow, as both the companies and the government hope it will, then the risk of more crashes and more lives lost will rise, and so the price per life of this investment will fall.
When unemployment and underemployment, college and credit card debt, and housing insecurity are on the rise, the decision to do something totally life-altering like start family is a much larger decision than it used to be.
Rising and falling and attempting to rise again is the cardiac cycle of modern American life.
In London, Standard Life surged 8.1% after reporting a 15% rise in operating profit for first half of 2012.
The trade-off was that, unlike old-fashioned whole life, the effective premiums for the universal policy death benefit rise as the policyholder ages.
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Consider the rise of Christian Gheorghe, an entrepreneur who started life in Romania and now is thriving as a Silicon Valley CEO.
The cancer society's rise coincided with the taming of infectious diseases and lengthening life spans.
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