In early 2007 I wrote, «Term life insurance is the most practical, appropriate and affordable life insurance for 90 % or
more of the average person's life insurance needs.
Term life insurance is the most practical, appropriate and affordable life insurance for 90 % or
more of the average person's life insurance needs.
Not exact matches
More than a billion
people log into Facebook daily, and Americans spend 40 minutes
of their day, on
average, on the social network.
With a
more equal population,
average people will prosper and so will the majority
of businesses.
The Freelancers Union, which represents 165,000
people nationwide, found that
more than three - quarters
of its members reported having been cheated by a client, with an
average loss
of $ 6,000.
And, while Soylent recalled its Soylent bars after customers began vomiting, the company hasn't given up on products that look
more like what the
average person thinks
of as food.
The
average person has X amount
of dollars to spend a week regardless
of when the shops are open, extending the hours will not bring in any
more revenue.
Residents
of the United States have, on
average,
more food - energy available to them than anybody else on the planet: 3,729 calories per
person, per day — or so the United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization calculates.
Goldman may be hoping that this new venture will soften its image and make it
more popular with
average Americans, but it's hard to forget its role in the subprime mortgage crisis that destroyed billions
of dollars
of value on Main Street, not to mention
people's livelihoods.
And are the brains
of innovative individuals structurally or functionally different from other
people's — that is, are they larger than
average, do their synapses operate differently, or is their wiring denser or perhaps
more sparse but faster?
He hopes that businesses will be
more explicit in describing how third - party companies can use data collected by technology companies, offering bullet - point summaries in terms the
average person can understand when policies are updated, and even explore the idea
of creating an ombudsman to field concerns and mediate conflicts between platforms and users.
The
average person needs 8.25 hours
of sleep per day — 95 minutes
more than that
average person actually gets.
«It provides
more clarity for the
average person that might come across us, [instead
of] having «Bionym» and the «Nymi» product name,» he explains.
Last year, the CDC found that U.S. life expectancy had actually dropped for the first time in
more than two decades to an
average of 78.8 years and that every major leading cause
of death other than cancer was killing
more people.
According to a blog posted today by LinkedIn senior data scientist Mathieu Bastian,
people who call out skills on their LinkedIn profiles receive an
average of 13 times
more profile views than those who don't.
That
more recent study
of people 95 to 100 also found that its participants — in addition to being generally
more easy - going and extroverted than
average — also tended to laugh frequently and express their emotions openly with one another, as opposed to bottling them up.
While
more people died in air accidents in 2014 than the
average in recent years, the number
of fatal accidents compared with the total number
of flights was a record low, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
If you go out and talk to
average people on the street, the ones that are already being heavily impacted, I think you'll find much
more recognition
of the reality
of what's really happening.
The chain is wooing higher - spending customers, meanwhile, with a revamped loyalty program that lavishes the top 10 %
of its customers,
people who spend an
average of $ 1,200 a year, with
more goodies like exclusive sales and beauty - salon pampering.
Naturally,
people with a high degree
of emotional intelligence make
more money — an
average of $ 29,000
more per year than
people with a low degree
of emotional intelligence.
At the Federal Reserve's target rate
of 2 percent, inflation could erode
more than $ 73,000
of a retiree's purchasing power over 20 years if that
person were receiving the monthly
average Social Security retirement payment
of $ 1,341.
I've got to think that each
of these
people spent
more than the
average couple
of seconds looking at a typical magazine ad to execute this program.
According to the research, landing pages that draw a
person's attention to one main call - to - action (in other words, a link) have a conversion rate
of 13.5 percent, while landing pages with five or
more call - to - actions or links have an
average conversion rate
of 10.5 percent.
Like other researchers before them, Wong and Penner found that go od - looking
people have a leg up in the workplace: Attractive individuals earn roughly 20 percent
more than
people of average attractiveness.
A 2013 analysis
of the Senate's immigration reform bill by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates its passage would have resulted in nine million
more people entering the U.S. work force in the next 20 years, with new immigrants participating at a higher rate, on
average, than other U.S. residents.
«Injection molding machines
average $ 100,000 or
more apiece,» she says, «so it's not [an issue]
of bringing a new staff
person in or getting a new computer.
In the lockout - shortened season
of 1994 - 95, each game
averaged 50
more people in attendance compared with the previous season.
Though retinal detachment is
more common among older
people, the
average age
of patients has been getting lower thanks to excessive cell phone use, Yu added.
Well, research shows that on
average,
people tend to talk about themselves during 60 percent
of a conversation — and when there's something being sold by one
person in the conversation, a less experienced salesperson could be tempted to fill a void
of silence with a laundry list
of more selling points and value propositions.
First, the scientific evidence: Research released this month by the University
of Warwick in Britain confirms that on
average, happiness makes
people 12 %
more productive.
Studies relying on self - reported data have come to even
more alarming conclusions; a survey conducted by the U.K. branch
of Weight Watchers, for example, found that
people were sitting an
average of 14 hours and 39 minutes a day.
Finally — as the ACOG noted in its statement — pregnant women are
more likely to die because
of the flu than the
average person.
Part
of the reason I enjoy working with the clients I work with is that they are
more motivated than the
average person.
The city's 15.07 businesses per 100
people are 65 %
more than the
average, 9.14 businesses per 100 residents,
of the cities analyzed.
And when you remove debt - free households from the equation —
people with either no debt or no credit to speak
of — the
average debt load was
more than double that, at $ 15,609.
-- Harvard Business School — «The
average time it took an unemployed
person to find a job — full time, part time or otherwise — in December (2008) was 19.7 weeks» — Department
of Labor — «Elite professionals feel least adept at getting meaningful introductions to key contacts (and)
more adept at maintaining ongoing contact with key network members.»
On
average,
people spent
more per visit due to a mixture
of price increases, trading up to its
more premium products, and ordering a higher number
of items when ordering from the $ 1 $ 2 $ 3 Dollar Menu, McDonald's said.
After a driver plowed through a crowd
of people in Barcelona on Aug. 17, leaving 13 dead and 100
more wounded, the Dow Jones Industrial
Average ended the day down about 274 points, with all 30 stocks in the index finishing in the red.
And this shifting focus towards businesses may be a good thing, according to Mitchell, who said that mass collection
of personal data by the likes
of Facebook and Google present
more realistic surveillance dangers to the
average person.
Reality
of the situation In the end the
people with power who have money to hire lobbyists and sway influence with members
of the CRTC will either get their way entirely or come to some sort
of «compromise «that benefits them
more than the
average Canadian who wants consumer choice.
88 %
of people in Canada reported to be in good health, much
more than the OECD
average of 69 % and one
of the highest scores across the OECD.
[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most
people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid
of your fear
of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on
average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think
of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story
of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story
of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story
of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance
of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about
more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right
people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for
more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome
of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit
of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit
of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out
of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out
of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out
of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?
Today, roughly half
of STEM jobs in the United States do not require a bachelor's degree, and since many
of these high - skills jobs are also high - demand, CTE graduates will earn on
average between $ 4,000 and $ 19,000
more a year than a
person with a humanities associate degree.
With the
average commute time
of nearly an hour each day on top
of the eight or
more hours spent on location, as well as other necessities outside
of work hours
of looking after kids, housework, maintenance
of vehicles, etc.,
people simply don't have enough time and energy to exercise and sleep regularly, give their best to their personal relationships, or relax and have fun — that is, until Saturday mercifully arrives.
-- Newfoundland and Labrador schools have lost a third
of their students since 1996;
more people have died than were born in the province for each
of the last three years and the
average age is almost three years older than the Canadian
average of 41.
The
average Facebook users has nearly 200 friends so if Cambridge Analytica accessed the friends
of 270,000 users, the data
of more than 50 million
people could have been obtained.
Average workstation rates in the US are
more than $ 900 per
person, per month, making it one
of the most expensive locations in the world for co-working.
If the
people who downloaded the app
averaged 200 «friends» each, that could lead to the collection
of data on
more than 50 million Facebook users.
Average people that experienced losses
of 30 %, 40 %, and even 50 % or
more are likely to find that they owe capital gains taxes on these losers.
The
average person leaving the world
of full - time work at age 65 can reasonably expect to spend 20 to 30 years or
more in retirement.