• If you are being asked to lock your hard-earned cash away for thirty years or more, and then to have to buy an annuity at the end, you should receive more favourable tax treatment than you do on your short-term savings which you can draw out at any time and spend on whatever you like.

    BBC: Peter Thompson's speech

  • Mr Katzav says he will lock away his political beliefs during his seven-year term and concentrate on the country's social and economic problems.

    ECONOMIST: Israel

  • TESSAs by the rule that they must lock their money away for the account's five-year life.

    ECONOMIST: Tax and saving

  • The Argentine playmaker did open the scoring after 15 minutes though with a well-struck penalty after Quins lock James Percival failed to roll away at a tackle.

    BBC: Harlequins 5-6 Leinster

  • Our correspondent said it is now widely expected that the cardinals will lock themselves away in the conclave in about two weeks' time - around the weekend of 11 March.

    BBC: Pope Benedict XVI amends Roman Catholic conclave law

  • But an almighty hit by Muliaina on Bradley Davies knocked the ball out of the lock's grasp and set New Zealand away on another dangerous counter-attack.

    BBC: Wales 25-37 New Zealand

  • Even with that island-style arrangement, there aren't many undersized buttons here -- the Enter, Shift, Backspace and Caps Lock keys are all full-sized, and easy to hit without looking away from the screen.

    ENGADGET: ASUS VivoTab Smart review: a good, inexpensive Windows 8 tablet

  • Well after receiving a fresh infusion of cash from Google and Skype, the company is storming into the U.S. and Europe with a deal straight out of a domestic wireless carrier's playbook: give away or heavily subsidize the hardware in order to lock customers into long-term commitments.

    ENGADGET: FON wooing "foneros" with $5 router

  • At the same time, it became clear that the lock-box was popular with voters, who decided they did not want their contributions frittered away on current spending (no one pointed out that in fact this is not what happens: the budget debate does not affect the rights of pensioners or the status of the trust fund).

    ECONOMIST: Budget making

  • In this decade, private-equity fund managers have gathered billions even though investors who back such funds have to lock their capital away for up to ten years.

    ECONOMIST: The rights of shareholders and the wrongs done to clients

  • Frankly, we don't buy the PR line: it's not sustainable for Intel to constantly "give away" their machines, so the payoff is inevitably going to be some sort of lock-in by getting there first.

    ENGADGET: Intel tactically donates a thousand laptops to Vietnam

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