annuity

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Under current law, fixed annuities are regulated differently and provide a different level of security than variable annuities.

He decides on one opportunity that gives him an annuity for life.†  (source) Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy, 1986

He had his teacher's pension and a small tax-deferred annuity and an old passbook with interest posted in cozy broken type.†  (source) Don DeLillo, Underworld, 1997

I am happy to hear that he had not yet exhausted his entire means; and would suggest to you, as a practical matter, a dependable Annuity, or — what has served me quite well during my own trials — a modest investment in railway shares, if a solid company, or else in Sewing Machines, which are sure to make great progress in the future.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, 1996

They will discuss a new angle on their annuities.†  (source) Judith Guest, Ordinary People, 1976

He executed his palace physician and his assistants, but one of the assistants had sold the information to one of my spies in exchange for an annuity for his family.†  (source) Megan Whalen Turner, Queen of Attolia, 2000

There were no legacies, no annuities, none of the posthumous bustle with which some of the dead prolong their activities.†  (source) E. M. Forster, Howards End, 1910

He was some kind of human annuity.†  (source) Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker, 1995

The second was a codicil, of recent origin, maintaining the annuities to Mrs. Penniman and Mrs. Almond, but reducing Catherine's share to a fifth of what he had first bequeathed her.†  (source) Henry James, Washington Square, 1880

Most of them, from the first, had been cautious, refusing to accept out-of-town checks, except, of course, payroll and annuity and government pension checks, which everyone assumed were always as good as cash.†  (source) Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon, 1959

With this one job you got annuities for your whole passel of bambinos.†  (source) Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Ultimatum, 1990

The annuity was a modest one, but with the help of the boarders and of a tenacious purpose Mrs. Keating had managed.†  (source) Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 1943

You got the annuities straightened out?†  (source) Judith Guest, Ordinary People, 1976