Up until the advent of universal whole life, the predominant form of life insurance for the middle class was participating or mutual whole life, where policyholders are treated as mutual owners of a non-public insurance company.
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It looked for life in the form of microbial life by looking at respiration products, by looking at how a microscopic form of life would ingest atmospheric gas and exhale gases.
It's also impossible to overlook the importance of Bale, who is in the form of his life and, predictably, drawing hyperbolic comparisons to Lionel Messi soccer's new pat on the backside.
Cullen, who is a confirmed entry for the 10K event, is in the form of her life after setting a new Irish indoor 3000 metres record at the weekend.
Microbes are the oldest form of life on earth and vital to life as we know it.
His arrival inspired Barcelona's renaissance, as they won La Liga in 2005 and a league and Champions League Double in 2006, with Ronaldinho producing some of the best form of his life.
There are strong arguments against this sort of assisted suicide, whether it takes the form of the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment or of more active measures such as the administration of lethal injections.
At the meeting he gave each of them five minutes to fill out the application form for the simplest type of life insurance for his or her country.
The Spaniard has been in the hottest form of his life since turning 40 in January and celebrated soon afterwards with success in the Johnnie Walker Classic in Bangkok.
The efforts form part of the Cairngorms Food for Life project.
The Optical group has a little life in the form of Finisar (FNSR) and JDS Uniphase (JDSU).
"The near-total destruction of the Iraqi marshlands under the regime of Saddam Hussein was a major ecological and human disaster, robbing the Marsh Arabs of a centuries-old culture and way of life as well as food in the form of fish and that most crucial of natural resources, drinking water, " according to Klaus Toepfer, the agency's executive director, whose comments are included in the report.
Chronic inflammation, however, can be a problem (as in arthritis) and acute inflammation in the form of toxic shock is life-threatening.
Then, at a friend's house in the South of France, Tenzin popped into his life again, this time in the form of one of his maze-patterned rugs.
But I think that a lot of the discussions that call this a completely new form of life are getting completely ahead of themselves.
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Here lemurs and other wildlife showed no fear of the local Tandroy tribesmen who lived a traditional life with the zebu cattle that form the basis of their wealth.
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Finally, Whitehall high-flyers traditionally regard the making of policy as the supreme bureaucratic achievement and delivery of policy as an altogether lower form of life.
The contrast between the anonymous ordinariness of life in the Bronx and the ghettos and squatter camps that form European impressions of their Romani fellow-citizens could hardly be sharper.
Once you decide on an amount, the next question is what form of life insurance to buy.
Now the thing about it is that they told me I have fibrocystic breasts and that lumps would continue to form for the rest of my life, that I would have to have a double mastectomy to avoid a life full of surgeries and cancer reoccurrences.
These encounters with different religious groups and the lack of representation of spiritual life in the media began to form in to an idea which has developed in to this ongoing series.
The period before fame arrives is the time when most artists collect the raw life stuff that will form the core of their work.
The child is given the opportunity to hate her mother (in the form of the stepmother) and still, as she does in life, love her mother (the real mother, conveniently absent from the tale).
Jail break films have long been a staple offering of Hollywood but, in a real life reversal of form, the Los Angeles Times reported that a former prisoner of the California State Prison in Sacramento, one Marvin Ussery, attempted to break into the jail.
Reimbursement for end-of-life counseling has recently returned, in the form of a Medicare regulation to take effect January 1, 2011.
Yet chemical signatures in the few rocks left over from this period suggest that life presumably in the form of bacteria was well established by the end of it.
By the time I walk you in future columns through all the component parts of the system, or at least the ones that can be understood by human life form, you will see that there is plenty of blame to go around here, including for you and me.
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This is the first example of a life form that can live with a different set of basic chemicals.
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"I don't think it represents the creation of an artificial life form, " said biomedical engineer James Collins at Boston University.
Dr Johnson, who presented these findings this week at the European Respiratory Congress in Vienna, concludes that antibiotic use at the beginning of life is mucking up infants' immune systems, malfunctions of which manifest themselves in the form of asthma and allergies.
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