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Given everything we have seen, the only case to be made is for the latter.
From BBC
If leaving money to your heirs matters, you can buy life insurance and name them as beneficiaries, or choose annuity options with a period-certain guarantee, though the latter reduce your monthly payment.
Her essay on Albert Camus’s journals begins, “great writers are either husbands or lovers”—the former supply “solid virtues” and the latter “an infusion of intense feeling.”
Mauricio Pochettino left the club 18 months ago despite having appeared to stabilise the team in the latter stages of that season.
From BBC
The former can cost $50,000 or more a year, and the latter twice that.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
