Two points the couple raise deserve emphasis: First, the lump sum or buy out option, if made available by your employer, may be eliminated in the near future.
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Research analysts say that even when those with a cash-out sum hit their desired stash, people find that themselves needing more money in order to really leave it all behind, or their work identities become too intertwined to leave their careers behind.
Rather than develop his own forecasting algorithms, in 2003 Baron shelled out an undisclosed sum for a small unit of engineers with supercomputers (spun out of the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina, a nonprofit research organization) that could anticipate storms up to a week in advance.
For investors accustomed to taking large risks, this situation is worse than just paying your lump sum tax and moving out.
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But you still have yet to explain why News International arrived at a settlement sum that was so out of keeping with those negotiated in similar invasion-of-privacy cases.
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Other factors also exaggerated the income increases in the two months, including lump-sum benefit payments handed out in December, and the loss of income for many in the New York area during October because of disruption from Storm Sandy.
It will continue to roll out lump-sum offers through 2013, a company spokesman said.
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Parents are expected to shell out a hefty sum.
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"It should work out as a zero sum game, " said Michael Trippit of Oriel Securities.
To sum things up, it turns out that spending restraint and lower taxes are a recipe for good fiscal policy.
The price of a smallholding of several hectares is only the minimal sum needed to have it marked out and registered.
European investors are taking a bigger bite out of dim-sum bonds, giving a fillip to the swelling offshore market in China's currency.
But Laurence Buckman, chairman of the BMA's GPs committee, said any phasing out of the lump sum was dependent on millions of pounds of more money being invested.
And this week he reiterated his opposition to taking the number of troops in Afghanistan down to a paltry sum, and said zero is out of the question for him.
These are policies which promise to pay out a supposedly fixed sum to the policy holder's inheritors when the customer eventually dies, with the payment coming from the investment proceeds of the person's monthly premiums.
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The hospital has apologised, paid out a "substantial" sum and insisted "lessons had been learned".
Having shelled out a jaw-dropping sum to showcase the 17-day event, NBC parent General Electric had hoped for better.
The resulting curves for 30-year returns on a lump sum showed a chance investors could come out ahead assuming tracking error at the 5% level.
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Mr Bradshaw said the deal meant that the lump sum could be expected to be phased out over the next five years, leaving more money to be attached to patient and therefore encouraging doctors to take on extra patients.
Rather than seeking to come out on top in zero-sum games, millennials strive for consensus.
In November, cult fitness clothing company Lululemon and Calvin Klein settled out of court for an undisclosed sum.
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When men and women work together on the investing equation, the whole turns out to be greater than the sum of the parts.
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With a stretch IRA, the beneficiary does not take out the monies in a lump sum, but can withdraw money in small increments over his or her lifetime.
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"For folks that don't need all of the money up front, it's pretty hard to see how they are going to come out financially better with a lump sum, " she says.
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The resulting sum is assessed on a graduated scale that tops out at a rate near 50%.
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So far, the cuts in fees apply mainly to one type of reverse mortgage: the plain-vanilla fixed-rate "home-equity conversion mortgage, " which is backed by the Federal Housing Administration and is paid out to the borrower as a lump sum.
Venture capitalists, including Andreessen, are quick to point out their business is not a zero-sum game.
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