"There aren't any good reasons for Japanese life insurance firms to rush to invest overseas, given the recent rise in domestic government bond yields, " Mr. Noji added.
Speculation had increased, especially among foreign investors, that Japan's life insurers and banks would rush abroad to seek higher yields as the Bank of Japan's mammoth purchases of Japanese government bonds push down returns at home.
Still, Johannesburg, which started life as a gold-rush town, is very much a go-go business city and the headquarters for most of South Africa's international companies. (This can be double-edged: Anglo Platinum recently poached its new chief executive, Ralph Havenstein, from Sasol.) It boasts the 21st-largest stock market in the world, and its financial officials have managed a respectable rebound from the 2002 rout of the rand.
For a peep into everyday Bangkok life, catch a boat during morning rush hour when smartly-dressed commuters jump off and on the regularly-stopping boats as easily as though they were on a bus.
To be sure, if you don't have life insurance, you shouldn't necessarily rush out and get it.
Syndicated talk radio shows, such as those headed by conservative Rush Limbaugh, have given new life to the medium (radio actually reaches more households today than television).
"He takes the possible loss of any innocent life seriously, and while he will not rush to judgment on the facts, he is following the investigation very closely, " Sholtis said.
Goals without schedules or deadlines tend to get lost in the rush of day-to-day life.
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In the 1970s the rush of successful men to the good life of winemaking in California's Napa and Sonoma valleys was on.
"Mr. Costner isn't the first person to come to Deadwood with big dreams that didn't come true, " says Francis Toscana, mayor of the gold-rush era town that has found new life in gambling and tourism.
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And you can see the impact that this Data Gold Rush has had on every corner of modern life.
The movement was born in 1986 in the northern Italian town of Bra, with the brief of combating the frenetic pace of modern life, which means we often eat badly and in a rush.
In 1993, Gordon Nicholas, who suffers from kidney failure, was told to rush to hospital - he had the chance of a life-transforming transplant operation.
Ten years ago regulators got worried that life insurance companies had too little set aside to cover future liabilities that might follow a rush of death claims.
They don't seem to be in any rush to go see their house, to look over what remains of their old life.
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