Word: q
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Q. Can you give the committee any explanation as to how any of that money was spent...
...Q. You were the secretary-treasurer...
...Q, You signed the checks...
...Q-Waves & Cigarettes. Few policyholders have the remotest idea how the Pru figures the premiums they pay on their insurance. One of the great misconceptions is that insurance men simply use a set of standard U.S. mortality tables. But the mortality tables are only a start. Every company has its own constantly changing tables, based on its own experience with policyholders. The Pru keeps close tabs on the card files of each one of its 33.2 million policyholders, watches for any unusual increase in deaths throughout its thousands of classifications. When it finds such an increase, the odds...
...different studies on everything from arthritis to high blood pressure, calculates how they affect the odds. For heart research alone, the Pru has a file of 25,000 electrocardiograms, one of the biggest in the world, which it uses to study the effects of the various heartbeat patterns (P, Q, R, S and T-Waves). Years ago the Pru refused to accept applicants whose cardiograms showed deep Q3-waves. Now it knows that deep Q3-waves are often meaningless, accepts most applicants. The Pru never says that any one individual will die sooner than another. What it does...