When the Soviets took control of Kyrgyzstan in 1918 they impacted the traditional life of nomadic herders by establishing collective farms and interbreeding the horses.
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In a report published this week, Datamonitor, a consultancy, points out that 82% of European bancassurance groups have lower costs than the average traditional life insurer.
German consumers buy their traditional life insurance policies through agents like Allianz's, but they tend to buy mutual funds and other equity products through their bank branches.
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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Its network of 14, 000 agents have made Allianz No. 1 in Germany's traditional life insurance market, with Euro4.2 billion in gross premiums written in Germany in the first half of 2000.
Many rural residents may resent new homes disturbing traditional village life.
Moreover, with nothing stopping these students from forming their own virtual and in-person clubs, study groups, co-ops, and all the other aspects of traditional student life.
There's a strong case against the whole project if you value the quiet, traditional village life in the Chilterns, but it looks a rather attractive option further up the line.
Elsewhere, traditional ways of life, still beautifully and scrupulously pursued, seemed to be under threat.
Fewer celebrities make their way up here, and something more closely resembling a traditional way of life is thriving.
There are concerns that opening up Greenland's resources for exploitation may pose an additional threat to the environment and traditional ways of life.
This is Brazil as it is lived by locals, a town of history, hard work, and an age-old focus on a traditional way of life.
The art of falconry, known also as the sport of kings, is part of the traditional way of life of the Bedouin in the Gulf region.
Long-time observers see the Bonn meeting as a last chance to create a central authority that gives the country coherence without repression and modernises without trampling traditional ways of life.
In giving travellers an opportunity to witness such a traditional way of life up close, the community is ensuring that this very special place will be around for generations, and tourists, to come.
Since 1999 though, when a commercial airport was built on the outskirts of the capital Hadibu, outsiders have started to discover Socotra, a trend that is helping to ease poverty and diversify the economy, but is also putting the traditional way of life at risk.
Software has a much shorter commercial life than traditional patented inventions, and is often built on top of earlier products.
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While it has a 15% market share in traditional fixed-annuity life insurance products, it has less than 2% of Germany's mutual fund market-and virtually nothing in equity-linked variable annuities.
However, given the changes in the indigenous people's way of life and traditional education, due to economic development, urbanisation and the transformation of livelihood practices, it is now imperative to promote and particularly target women with community education programmes in order to enhance their capacity to effectively function in the emerging socioeconomic environment.
Complex communications and loose hierarchies sound much more fun than life on the traditional production line.
He insisted economics was much more than its traditional grounding in measuring out life in dollars and cents.
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They range from exquisite hand-woven carpets to simple instruments of daily life - a traditional water pipe and a pitchfork.
These affordable thin and light laptops strike a balance between portability and performance for consumers who want more computing power than a netbook and longer battery life than a traditional laptop, without the premium price of an Ultrabook.
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An ideal solution for many small business environments, it's ideally suited for life outside the traditional office -- such as the portables found on many construction sites or for field sales reps that commute from location to location, visiting the home office only occasionally.
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The LED backlight also boasts of better luminance, faster response time and lower power consumption than the traditional LCD, and combined with some fancy ASUS Power4 Gear eXtreme power management should have battery life up 20-25 percent over traditional laptops.
Jesus and Peter, calling Levi to a new life, paradoxically wear traditional biblical garb.
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New York Life is in the process of hiring 3, 000 agents, as stock-wary investors have turned back to traditional forms of savings such as life insurance.
Nonetheless we are seeing the beginnings of an online social movement which will enhance traditional classroom education and breathe new life into the world of work.
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Bernard has proven he can inject life into non-traditional sports.
More recently, Lee County harbors traditional trappings of small-town life.
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