Short-term life-insurance policies, paid by the employer, for example, used to be a neat way of avoiding income and payroll taxes.
But in the bric-a-brac of daily life, we turn off our curiosity, often replacing it with the short-term, the obvious, the bone-numbingly mundane.
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Unfortunately, without rigorous testing and accurate results with the aim of truly finding out how much stress the banking system can handle and adapting accordingly, these tests may not soothe in the short-term, but more likely leave markets extremely fragile when the next real-life test is had.
Mr. JOE GEEVER (Spokesman, Surfrider Foundation): We're concerned about, you know, one that the desal may extend the life of these once-through cooling systems or, in the short term, exacerbate how much marine life mortality is going on right now.
Short-term currency volatility is a fact of life, and is hard to prevent.
The banks want to use their new links with insurers to sell mutual funds, life policies and short-term insurance over their counters an activity known as bancassurance.
While that research is still in its infancy, often lost in the discussions of cryonics are the short-term implications, such as the rapid cool-down of an accident victim to prolong their life enough to be treated.
It also requires a culture that approaches it as a way of life rather than a short-term band-aid for current business problems.
While elevated iodine has been most widely reported, its 8-day half life is very short, and iodine tablets offer good protection from the primary long-term health risk: thyroid cancer.
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For freight managers, however, there is no comfort: some of these plans will make life harder, and nothing short-term (except relaxation of Austria's controls, already asked for, but not so far granted) can make it easier.
An expansion in the short-term yield differentials would make currency hedging more expensive for life insurers.
Short-term, taxable profits with good dividends are a prerequisite of public life.
It will be painful under any scenario, but the pain will become life-threatening if we keep jury-rigging short-term fixes that collectively cripple our economy and jobs.
Branded badges as virtual symbols of conspicuous consumption can be a strong check-in incentive in the short term among the early adopters, but they will probably have about the same shelf life and the breadth of appeal as a corporate island in Second Life.
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