Despite its troubles, in 2000 Aon bought Reliance Group's accident and health insurance business, as well as Actuarial Sciences Associates, a compensation and employee benefits consulting company.

Despite the Democratic majority in Congress, the effort to create a national health care system ultimately died when compromise legislation by George J. Mitchell failed to gain a majority of support in August 1994.

Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.

Despite the consensus of public health professionals regarding the benefits of vaccination, among chiropractors there are significant disagreements over the subject, which has led to negative impacts on both public vaccination and mainstream acceptance of chiropractic.

Despite their planned integration into the Kosovar society and their recognition in the Kosovar constitution, Romani and other minorities ( i. e. Ashkali and Egyptian communities ) continue to face many difficulties, such as segregation and discrimination, in housing, education, health, employment and social welfare.

Despite deteriorating health, he continued what he called his " Universal Work ," which included fasting and seclusion, until his death on 31 January 1969.

Despite his rapidly declining health, Roosevelt remained active to the end of his life.

Despite his rapidly failing health, Morgan asserts his right to travel up the tower in a one-man ' spider ' to rescue them.

Despite a widespread tendency to romanticize his ill health, modern critics see an artist deeply frustrated by the inactivity and incoherence brought about by his bouts of illness.

Despite his poor health, he still welcomed a steady stream of visitors from family members, business partners, political associates and his constituents.

Despite a relatively high standard of primary health care and education, infant mortality is still 83 out of 1, 000 live births, and it is estimated that malnutrition affects one in three of Zanzibar's people.

Despite pictures in the press, the case was subsequently dropped after the public prosecution service decided that Schmidt's actions had not been a threat to public health.

Despite his deteriorating health, the lead singer continued to contribute.

Despite smoking in some of his films, Eastwood is a lifelong non-smoker, has been conscious of his health and fitness since he was a teenager, and as a Vegan practices healthy eating and daily Transcendental Meditation. While promoting his film, Hereafter, Eastwood spoke about his views on religion and meditation by saying " I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them.

Despite some allegations that EMR exposure has negative health consequences, at this time, no link has been verifiably proven between the radio-frequency EMR that tin foil hats are meant to protect against and subsequent ill health.

Despite the many things which Marie Antoinette did in her spare time, her primary concern became the health of the Dauphin, which was beginning to fail.

Despite various cutbacks after 1966, expenditure on services such as education and health was still much higher as a proportion of national wealth than in 1964.

Despite his declining health, he tried to take part in an insurrection in Bologna, but was forced to return to Switzerland in disguise, and settled in Lugano.

Despite a rise in the number of Australians covered by health insurance plans following the end of the Second World War, a large proportion of the Australian population continued to lack coverage for health risks by the early Seventies.

Despite its popularity, the drinking of alcohol poses significant health risks.

Despite her energy, Anastasia's physical health was sometimes poor.

Despite ill health, he was present at the ceremony, which proved to be his final public appearance.

Despite his poor health, he accepted his party's second nomination to run for Vice President in the election of 1884 as Grover Cleveland's running mate, and served in that office until his death only eight months later.

Despite their efforts, the problems seemed to grow graver all the time.

Despite problems over the previous acquisition of AC Cars, Hayes saw the potential of the brand and the discussion resulted in Ford taking a share holding in September 1987.

Despite these constraints especially those deputies that are elected directly normally try to keep close contact with their constituents and to help them with their problems, particularly when they are related to federal policies or agencies.

Despite these problems, one of the main achievements of Attlee's government was the maintenance of near full employment.

Despite this comment, Samuelson spent the last 50 years of his life obsessed with the problems of capital theory identified by Hayek and Böhm-Bawerk, and Samuelson flatly judged Hayek to have been right and his own teacher, Joseph Schumpeter, to have been wrong on the central economic question of the 20th century, the feasibility of socialist economic planning in a production goods dominated economy.

Despite suffering from antenna problems, Galileo conducted the first asteroid flyby near 951 Gaspra and discovered the first asteroid moon, Dactyl, around the asteroid 243 Ida.

Despite these problems, the growing inflow of American silver from mid-16th century, the justified military reputation of the Spanish infantry and even the navy quickly recovering from its Armada disaster, made Spain the leading European power, a novel situation of which its citizens were only just becoming aware.

Despite these problems, the number of visitors arriving in Honduras rose from fewer than 200, 000 in 1987 to almost 250, 000 in 1989.

Despite these important achievements, the country's economy today suffers from many and relevant problems.

Despite the Isandhlwana victory, tactically there were major problems as well.

Despite resolving their salary cap problems, the team's rebuilding was clearly taking longer than expected.

Despite early problems with recruitment and training, it is becoming effective in fighting against the Taliban insurgency.

Despite current currency problems, Burmese economy is expected to grow by about 8. 8 % in 2011.

Despite the title, it omitted a handful of articles due to problems clearing the rights on some book excerpts and text taken from recordings, such as Andy Griffith's " What It Was, Was Football.

Despite some continued systematic problems, Poland has made a large economic progress over the last decade, and now is ranked 20-th worldwide in terms of the GDP.

Despite its theoretical and potential problems, this approach is widely used.

Despite this apparent success the underlying problems remained unresolved and had already resulted in the death or serious injury of 30, 000 civilians.

Despite his regular season problems, Elway ended up playing his best during the playoffs.

Despite their defensive problems, the Bills finished the season with an AFC best 13-3 regular season record.

Despite his injury problems, McNair finished the season as the second leading rusher on the team with 337 yards and scoring 8 touchdowns.

Despite mounting problems between the musicians, the Band forged ahead with their next album, Cahoots ( 1971 ).

Despite the problems, the Big Park at the Tirana Artificial Lake has some effect on absorbing CO < sub > 2 </ sub > emissions, while over 2000 trees have been planted around sidewalks.

Despite these problems, the VESA Local Bus became very commonplace on later 486 motherboards, with a majority of later ( post 1993 ) 486-based systems featuring a VESA Local Bus video card.

Despite his injury problems in 1891, few doubted that Grace should captain England in Australia the following winter when he led Lord Sheffield's team to Australia in 1891 – 92.

Despite Forge managing to fix Strong Guy's problems, he did not rejoin the team.