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<title>Different Types of Outdoor Water Features</title>
<description>The completion of any landscaping project should include the addition of one or more outdoor water features in your garden. There are many designs to choose from depending on the size of your garden and whether or not you want to have them free standing, ...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_740175_33.html</link>
<pubDate>07th January 2009</pubDate>
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<title>How to Find Affordable House Insurance Quotes</title>
<description>House insurance quotes do not have to be costly. You can easily find an affordable quote that will meet your budget and give you the insurance coverage you need for your peace of mind. Even if you are not having any issues with your current insurance prov...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_739258_19.html</link>
<pubDate>06th January 2009</pubDate>
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<title>Get the Coverage You Need With Cheap Homeowners Insurance</title>
<description>The price you pay to purchase a home insurance policy depends on the amount of coverage you want to have on your home.  You do need to make sure that you have enough coverage so that the insurance will cover the costs of rebuilding if you incur a total lo...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_726206_19.html</link>
<pubDate>18th December 2008</pubDate>
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<title>What is the Best Life Insurance to Have?</title>
<description>There is no one life insurance policy that fits every individual, so trying to answer the question of the best life insurance is a difficult one. Many people think in terms of getting the most coverage for the lowest price as being the best one for their ...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_718101_19.html</link>
<pubDate>13th December 2008</pubDate>
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<title>What Does Term Life Insurance Entail?</title>
<description>A simple definition will answer the question "what is term life insurance?" This is insurance that you take out on your life for a certain period of time. If you die during that term then the insurance company will pay the amount of the death benefit to y...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_718082_19.html</link>
<pubDate>13th December 2008</pubDate>
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<title>What is Involved in Getting Homeowner Insurance Quotes?</title>
<description>Even if you request several homeowners insurance quotes from different providers you need to have an understanding of how to read the quotes to be able to determine which one is the most affordable. 

The price is not the only factor you have to take in...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_716984_19.html</link>
<pubDate>11th December 2008</pubDate>
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<title>How to Choose a Life Insurance Company</title>
<description>With the thousands of companies selling life insurance, many people have a difficult time deciding which life insurance company to choose for their needs. This question is uppermost in everyone’s mind these days with the financial problems in the global...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_713114_19.html</link>
<pubDate>05th December 2008</pubDate>
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<title>What is Covered in a Standard Homeowner Insurance Policy?</title>
<description>Homeowner insurance will provide you with the protection you need on your property in the event of fire or other damage that could destroy home partially or completely. A standard insurance policy will give you the protection you need for the home itself ...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_709612_19.html</link>
<pubDate>03rd December 2008</pubDate>
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<title>All About Term Life Insurance</title>
<description>Term life insurance is one of the types of life insurance policies you can purchase. This type of life insurance will only pay the amount of the policy to your beneficiary if you die during the term specified in the policy, which could be between one and ...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_704727_19.html</link>
<pubDate>02nd December 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Promote Your Company with Printed Coasters</title>
<description>You hand out business cards and have advertisements in various forms of media in an effort to expand your customer base. Have you considered using printed coasters as promotional aids? By giving small gifts of coasters to your clients, you are not only gi...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_703581_15.html</link>
<pubDate>01st December 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Insurance the </title>
<description>Whether or not a given type of carrier is doing business in the American way depends upon the definition of the term "American way." No one definition of the term would be generally accepted. Under some definitions, only state funds would be excluded. Und...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_700057_15.html</link>
<pubDate>01st December 2008</pubDate>
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<title>The Mutuals Rebuttal</title>
<description>Mutual insurance companies, of course, do not accept any of the charges made against them. They are quick to point out that the oldest insurance company in America today is a mutual carrier founded in 1752 by Benjamin Franklin. The position of the mutual ...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_700040_15.html</link>
<pubDate>01st December 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Getting Auto Insurance Quotes Will Save You Money</title>
<description>Whether you buy a new vehicle or look for insurance on one that you have had for years, it pays to shop around. When you get auto insurance quotes from several providers you are better able to compare the rates and save yourself money by choosing the prov...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_692471_19.html</link>
<pubDate>24th November 2008</pubDate>
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<title>How Does No Medical Life Insurance Work?</title>
<description>When you apply for life insurance, it is very likely that the insurance provider will require you to take a medical exam to ensure that you do not have any pre-existing medical conditions that could cause your death within a short period of time after you...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_691564_63.html</link>
<pubDate>22nd November 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Insurance Probabilities</title>
<description>Economically Feasible Cost

To be insurable, the chance of loss must be small. The cost of an insurance policy consists of the pure premium, or amount actually needed to make loss payments, and the expense portion. If the chance of loss approaches 100%,...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_686456_66.html</link>
<pubDate>12th November 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Probable Loss and the Law of Large Numbers</title>
<description>A Large, Homogeneous Group of Exposure Units

To facilitate the prediction of the probable loss through use of the law of large numbers, it is essential that there be a large number of similar units exposed to the same peril. If a company can insure onl...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_686405_19.html</link>
<pubDate>12th November 2008</pubDate>
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<title>The Development of Industrial Insurance</title>
<description>In the life insurance industry it became less and less true that only the lower income groups were industrial policyholders. Industrial insurance, far from providing only burial funds, became more generally part of a larger family program. In the late 194...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_683439_66.html</link>
<pubDate>05th November 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Ordinary Versus Industrial Insurance</title>
<description>Equally important in providing life insurance to working people at low cost has been the increasing trend to write ordinary instead of industrial insurance on their lives. An important step in this direction was taken by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_683427_19.html</link>
<pubDate>05th November 2008</pubDate>
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<title>The Reduction of the Cost of Industrial Insurance</title>
<description>Two further developments helped to reduce the cost of industrial insurance in the twentieth century. As early as 1911 the company inaugurated a plan whereby industrial policyholders willing to pay weekly premiums directly and continuously to the home offi...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_679566_66.html</link>
<pubDate>31st October 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Premium Industrial Insurance</title>
<description>Over the decades, well meaning but often misinformed persons have decried what they have called "the high cost of weekly premium industrial insurance.” Any offhand comparison with the cost of ordinary insurance or &lt;a href=”http://cheap-insurance-rates...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_679556_66.html</link>
<pubDate>31st October 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Affordable Health Insurance for the Self-Employed</title>
<description>If you are self employed you might have to research some health insurance companies to find out which ones offer the best plans for you. Do not expect to find a bargain. People who do not have group coverage or coverage from where they are employed are th...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_677908_66.html</link>
<pubDate>30th October 2008</pubDate>
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<title>The Importance of Maternity Coverage</title>
<description>Maternity coverage is a really good idea if you are pregnant. Check your existing insurance policies. You will probably discover that you are not covered. It’s great to be expecting but many people are not expecting the huge expenses that come with havi...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_677892_66.html</link>
<pubDate>30th October 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Cheap Car Insurance Quotes Anyone Can Find</title>
<description>Using an insurance broker on the internet to find cheap car insurance quotes is a great idea, mainly because being able to contrast and compare one deal to another is so fast and easy. There are many car insurance broker type sites that you can find by ty...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_676337_66.html</link>
<pubDate>27th October 2008</pubDate>
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<title>No Medical Online Life Insurance Quotes</title>
<description>There are two basic types of no medical online life insurance quotes that you can get. The first is term insurance and the second cash value insurance.  The no medical online life insurance quotes for term insurance offers cheaper premiums but this is not...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_676329_66.html</link>
<pubDate>27th October 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Cheap Homeowner Insurance</title>
<description>There was a time when it seemed that cheap homeowner insurance was everywhere. This was in the days before Hurricane Katrina which was so devastating that many insurance companies could not make good on paying off their policies. Nowadays good insurance f...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_672772_66.html</link>
<pubDate>23rd October 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Affordable Life Insurance</title>
<description>In a nutshell, the most affordable life insurance is the stand-alone type. This means that you are not purchasing the insurance as part of any home insurance plan or medical insurance plan and that you are not purchasing it from one of the big insurance p...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_672675_19.html</link>
<pubDate>23rd October 2008</pubDate>
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<title>A Vigorous Growth of a Company</title>
<description>The young company of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company was growing with vigor. Not a local or a sectional, but a national service was envisioned. At the close of 1879 the company had 124 agents in its service. By the end of the next year the number had ...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_669572_15.html</link>
<pubDate>21st October 2008</pubDate>
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<title>The Introduction of the Prudential of London</title>
<description>It is a matter of record that both President Dryden of the Prudential and President Knapp of the Metropolitan were close students of the Prudential of London. Both went to London and witnessed the functioning of the business at first hand. In fact, Mr. Kn...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_669553_15.html</link>
<pubDate>21st October 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Industrial Life Insurance</title>
<description>After the war it became clear that life insurance service to the wage earners of the United States and Canada was the central theme of Metropolitan history. It determined the character of the company’s development as has no other single factor and its i...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_669471_19.html</link>
<pubDate>21st October 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Metropolitan Life Insurance's War Efforts</title>
<description>Parkchester was cited by housing experts and by all interested in public welfare as an important civic contribution. It is the largest housing project ever undertaken either by private or public agencies in the United States. Parkchester has demonstrated ...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_669459_19.html</link>
<pubDate>21st October 2008</pubDate>
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<title>The First Stock Market Crash</title>
<description>Frederick H. Ecker became President of the Metropolitan on March 26, 1929, and associated with him as Vice Presidents were Robert L. Cox and Leroy A. Lincoln. Mr. Cox died in January of the following year, and Mr. Lincoln immediately assumed the position ...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_662245_19.html</link>
<pubDate>13th October 2008</pubDate>
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<title>A Traditional Program of Sound Investments</title>
<description>While during the most industrially effective decade the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company continued its traditional program of sound investment, it was, as always, responsive to the contemporary economic and social needs of the country. An analysis of t...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_662217_66.html</link>
<pubDate>13th October 2008</pubDate>
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<title>The Underestimated Value of Insurance</title>
<description>Insurance as an issue in business—the worth of insurance is typically greatly underestimated. This is partially the consequence of assuming a very tapered view of the insurance industry for, in assessing the value of any commerce enterprise, we must mul...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_661306_19.html</link>
<pubDate>13th October 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Similarities in all Fields of Insurance</title>
<description>Similar depictions are found in all fields of insurance. No property owner is completely certain that his title is strong and no one would be willing to put forth a single prediction about it when it comes to personal judgment, however correct, could be w...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_661258_66.html</link>
<pubDate>13th October 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Child Insurance: A Threat?</title>
<description>The attack on child insurance, if not adequately answered, threatened the very life of industrial insurance.    Weekly Premium business was for the family; and unless the youngsters who formed so large a part of the family were included, the basic princip...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_650925_66.html</link>
<pubDate>29th September 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Ordinary Business Life Insurance</title>
<description>Ordinary Business Life Insurance

The ordinary business Metropolitan Life Insurance Company prospered anew soon after 1892. This new lease on life was due not only to the low cost of the contracts, but also, in large measure, to the wide variety of plan...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_650890_15.html</link>
<pubDate>29th September 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Better Business Efficiency with Insurance</title>
<description>When you eliminate risk from the equation, businesses are able to operate more efficiently.  Here is a look at why.

Price equals efficiency

One thing to consider when you are looking at insurance and how it improves efficiency is the cost.  The cost...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_641422_15.html</link>
<pubDate>18th September 2008</pubDate>
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<title>The Value of Insurance for Business Security</title>
<description>Insurance is often undervalued, frequently because people have a narrow mind when it comes to the insurance business as a whole.  However, insurance helps to give security to business dealings.  Here is a look at how insurance can give your business secur...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_641394_15.html</link>
<pubDate>18th September 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Crucibles in the General Steel Making Process</title>
<description>Typically, a crucible is defined as a container in which metals are melted, usually at temperatures above 550 °C. These crucibles are typically made of graphite with clay as a binder material. These crucibles are extremely durable and resist temperatures...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_635107_15.html</link>
<pubDate>11th September 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's Competition</title>
<description>One obstacle which the officers of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company had to overcome was the fierce competition of the older companies in the field. These could afford to pay higher commissions because their greater assets and surplus gave them a mo...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_634247_19.html</link>
<pubDate>10th September 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Charcoal and the General Steel Making Process</title>
<description>When one thinks of charcoal, we normally think of the most important historical use of wood charcoal; as the main ingredient in gunpowder. However, it was of major importance in metallurgical operations as a reducing agent, primarily in the manufacture of...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_634138_15.html</link>
<pubDate>10th September 2008</pubDate>
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<title>The Life Insurance Business in 1868</title>
<description>The world of 1868, when the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company was born, was very different from the world we know today. There were no telephones in those days and no electric lights. The country had not yet been spanned by a transcontinental railroad. ...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_634116_15.html</link>
<pubDate>10th September 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Building America and Making Steel: The Bessemer Process</title>
<description>The Bessemer process of steel making was the first low cost industrial process for the mass-production of general steel from molten pig iron. Its inventor, Henry Bessemer, took...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_633181_33.html</link>
<pubDate>09th September 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Blasting Away: Steel Building</title>
<description>There are three general uses of the term “Blast” in the making of steel.

It’s hard to overstate the importance of the steel industry in the United States, especially in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. This article gives a glimpse of insight...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_633143_15.html</link>
<pubDate>09th September 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Fast and Easy Ways to Get Homeowner's Insurance Quotes</title>
<description>Searching online is one of the easiest ways to get the cheapest homeowner insurance quote for a policy to meet your needs.

If you own your own home, you definitely need insurance. When you have a mortgage, insurance on the home is one of the requiremen...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_629927_63.html</link>
<pubDate>09th September 2008</pubDate>
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<title>The Crash of 1929 and its Effect on Life Insurance</title>
<description>Soon after Mr. Ecker took the helm of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Leroy A. Lincoln, at the age of 49, was made Vice President. He had come into the company in 1918, and in little more than a decade had demonstrated his capacity to handle a va...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_629874_19.html</link>
<pubDate>09th September 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Viatical Life Settlements</title>
<description>If you choose to sell your life insurance policy, you should be conscious of the fact many states, including Maryland, require your viatical settlement broker to take particular steps in every matter. The broker must:

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<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_628264_19.html</link>
<pubDate>08th September 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Finding Great Deals on 5-Star Luxury World Cruises</title>
<description>Taking a 5-star luxury world cruise doesn’t have to cost you an arm and a leg, which means people can set sail on a luxury cruise that may have thought they were too expensive. Contrary to popular opinion, the cost of 5-star luxury cruises is not a lot ...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_621574_63.html</link>
<pubDate>05th September 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Understanding Life Settlements</title>
<description>A life settlement is the sale of ownership of a life insurance policy to another outside third party. The proprietor of a life insurance policy receives monetary funds for the policy. The buyer turns into the new proprietor as well as the beneficiary of t...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_617437_63.html</link>
<pubDate>03rd September 2008</pubDate>
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<title>Life Insurance Terms: </title>
<description>Settlement Option: How a beneficiary is given disbursement of the death benefit. The company might pay one lump sum or institute a money market account in the recipient’s name and supply the recipient the option of leaving the funds in the account or wi...</description>
<link>http://www.financealley.com/article_617401_19.html</link>
<pubDate>03rd September 2008</pubDate>
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