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Both authors were paid a lump sum for each draft of their work, and will receive royalties on each book sold. The glossy, five-by-seven handbooks sell for $6.95 each...
...MECHANICS. Reverse-mortgage payouts come in three forms: a monthly payment for as long as you or your spouse lives (the annuity), a lump sum or a line of credit. You can combine these options...
...example, consider a 77-year-old Chicago couple with a home worth $250,000. On the basis of life expectancies, they would qualify for a reverse-mortgage lump sum or line of credit of $175,600 or a monthly payout that would add up to that amount by the time they were both expected to be dead, minus loan costs (in this case, they would net $1,069 a month...
...Sullivan’s exit, the council debated its process for funding student groups. The matter was not settled until a separate Finance Committee (FiCom) session later last night, in which a project-based grant application system was implemented. The new system replaced one that awarded student groups a lump sum at the beginning of each semester...
...mystical belief in “potential life” held by some bioethicists and abortion-obsessed politicians. The usual line of argument is that human embryos outside of a woman deserve protection as “potential” human beings. An apt analogy would be selling a lump of graphite for the price of a diamond because it has the potential (under extreme heat and pressure) to become a diamond. But by stirring up concern about human cloning, the Raelian controversy could catalyze restrictions on other types of cloning, all of which fall under the general name...