Word: mortalizes
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...Stock Market's sickness made life insurance companies look decidedly mortal last week, as sliding share prices dragged the value of insurer assets dangerously close to what they potentially owe policyholders - the point at which they're technically insolvent. The problem is especially critical in Germany, where the bull market had bestowed "quiet reserves" - unrealized and unrevealed gains - upon insurers, enabling them to entice new policyholders with offers of 6% annual returns. Now most of Germany's 130 or so mutual insurers are carrying "quiet liabilities." "They're sort of in a trap," says Commerzbank analyst Marc Thiel. "They need...
Hence, who had seemed unhittable in retiring the Crimson’s first 14 batters, was suddenly mortal. Harvard—seemingly out of the game just moments before—had the tying run at the plate in sophomore Trey Hendricks...
...same thing, like his ambition, which was great for movies, tough on his co-workers. The Hollywood numbers are smartly chosen, and there?s some rare footage: of the teen Gene dancing, and of Gene in "Pal Joey," filmed surreptitiously by a fan. (The documentary also commits a mortal sin. In the middle of the single most famous shot in the Kelly oeuvre - from "Singin? in the Rain," when Gene is whirls on the rain-drenched street and the camera cranes back and up - Trachtenberg cuts to a talking head. Unforgivable! Hey, Joe, get me a tarantula...
Although his stories uncompromisingly describe the former aspect of mortal existence, they leave the reader with a lasting sense of hope in the veracity of the latter...
Although his stories uncompromisingly describe the former aspect of mortal existence, they leave the reader with a lasting sense of hope in the veracity of the latter...