While most HECM reverse-mortgage options carry adjustable rates and offer a line of credit or annuity-like payouts over time, the sole fixed-rate HECM choice is available only with a lump-sum payout.

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Talks between the G7 industrialized nations and Russia - Serbia's sole friend and perhaps the only country that can draw Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic into an acceptable political settlement - had been going well.

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Furthermore, 18 percent of African-Americans, 16 percent of English-speaking Hispanics and 10 percent of whites are "cell-only wireless users" -- which means their sole access to the internet, e-mail or instant messaging is via their phones.

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Travelers ( TRV), the sole insurance company among the thirty Dow Industrials, only joined the Blue Chips in mid-2009.

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And I only seriously involved myself in extra-curricular activities my senior year for the sole purpose of bolstering my applications.

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Executions are very rare in India - Afzal Guru's was only the second since 2004, after Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the sole surviving attacker from the 2008 Mumbai attack was executed in November.

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With only six workers in Burgundy and three in Limoges, Moynat's sole obstacles thus far are self-imposed.

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