That mother hen of the weight-height tables, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., clucks that 48 million Americans are overweight.

* March 24 – The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company is formed.

For example, Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos aruges in Life After Death that Gregory opposed all philosophical ( as opposed to theological ) endeavour as tainted with worldliness.

* Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos, Life after Death.

* Metropolitan Life

Elm Park is served by the several churches-the Elm Park Baptist church, St Albans Catholic Church, St. Nicholas Church of England, Arise Metropolitan Assembly which meets at the annex of the Elm Park Community Assembly Hall on Eyhurst / St. Nicholas Avenue, Christ Life Church and Eagles Christian Connections.

See Metropolitan Life Ins.

In 2005 Citigroup sold to Metropolitan Life the Travelers life insurance business.

" He took on the enormous project as the sole financier, on a 27-year lease ( with the option for three 21-year renewals for a total of 87 years ) for the site from Columbia ; negotiating a line of credit with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and covering ongoing expenses through the sale of oil company stock.

Later, Exxon, Metropolitan Life and Morgan Guaranty Trust also provided financing.

Long also served on the Board of Directors of The New York Stock Exchange, Lowe's Companies, Inc., and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.

Upon completion in 1902, it was one of the tallest buildings in the city and one of only two skyscrapers north of 14th Street – the other being the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, one block east.

On completion, the Woolworth building overtook the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower as the world's-tallest building ; it opened on April 24, 1913.

At 612 feet ( 187 m ) above grade, the Singer Building was the tallest office building in the world from its completion in 1908 until the completion in 1909 of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower at 23rd Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan.

* " Metropolitan Life on the Mississippi ", Washington Post, March 12, 1997

It remained Pan Am's headquarters even after Metropolitan Life Insurance Company bought the building in 1981.

At the time MetLife was headquartered in the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower.

In addition to being the official headquarters of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, the MetLife Building houses a number of other major firms, including the headquarters of Dreyfus Corporation, Knight Vinke and Barclays Wealth Americas, the largest office of Greenberg Traurig, DnB NOR, CB Richard Ellis, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Hunton & Williams, Computer Sciences Corporation, Winston & Strawn & Lend Lease Corporation on Level 9.

The premier served on the boards of a number of major companies, including: Barclays Bank ( Canada ) Ltd., Caisse d ' économie, Molson Bank, Canadian Investments Funds, Bank of Montreal, Royal Trust Company, Sun Life Assurance, Metropolitan Life Assurance Co., Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Co., Pioneer Insurance Co., Globe Indemnity Co. and the Manitoba Liverpool Insurance Co ..

He was also a distinguished orator and after-dinner speaker ; author: Orations and After Dinner Speeches ( 1890 ), Life and Later Speeches ( 1894 ), Orations, Addresses and Speeches ( eight volumes ) ( 1910 ), Speeches and Addresses on the threshold of Eighty ( 1912 ), Addresses and Literary Contributions on the Threshold of Eighty-two ( 1916 ), Speeches and Literary Contributions on the Threshold of Eighty-four ( 1918 ), My Memories of Eighty Years and Marching On ( 1922 ); Miscellaneous Speeches on the Threshold of Ninety-two ( 1925 ); contributed a " My Autobiography " in 1922, and an article to the 50th Anniversary Supplement of the Yale Daily News entitled " An Optimistic Survey " in 1928 ; member Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society of Colonial Wars, Connecticut Society of the Society of the Cincinnati, Holland Society, Huguenot Society, New England Society, France-America Society, New York Historical Society, St. Augustine ( Fla .) Historical Society, American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, National Horse Show, Lafayette Post of the Grand Army of the Republic, and St. Thomas ' ( Episcopal ) Church, New York ; made life member of Lawyers ' Club of New York in 1918 ; honorary member New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.

He joined Midland Bank in 1964 before joining the Metropolitan Police Service in 1965, after his Hendon Police College training he worked in the West End of London, leaving the force in 1969 to sell life insurance for Equitable Life.

* Statistician for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York ( 1924 until his retirement in 1947 )

His main interest was demography, which possibly influenced his professional choice as a statistician at Metropolitan Life Insurance.

* MET, the NYSE ticker symbol for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

In early 1868 Crosby met millionaire Methodist Phoebe Palmer Knapp, who was married to Joseph Fairchild Knapp, co-founder of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.

To the left is the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower | Met Life Tower, with Madison Square Park in front.

His father was a past president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and his mother was a hymn writer, credited with over 500 hymns, most notably " Blessed Assurance " with Fanny Crosby.

Thomas Lowry, another major real estate speculator and the owner of the area's streetcar network, purchased the building but only held onto it for a little more than a decade before selling it off to the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1905.

MetLife, Inc. is the holding corporation for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, or MetLife, for short, and its affiliates.

The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower | Metropolitan Life Insurance Company tower, which previously served as company headquarters, was featured in its advertising for many years.

The New York Metropolitan Opera Company will be here in May, and the board will sponsor the Saturday night, May 13, performance of `` Turandot '' as a benefit.

The Underground railway system had been developed and was owned by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London ( UERL ) and the Metropolitan Railway.

In 1919, the British Westinghouse electrical company was taken over as the Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company ; Metrovick.

A reorganization during 1926 led to the retention of the rolling stock group: Metropolitan Carriage wagon and Finance Company and The Metropolitan-Vickers Company and the disposal of: Vickers-Petters Limited, British Lighting and Ignition Company, the Plywood department at Crayford Creek, Canadian Vickers, William Beardmore and Co, and Wolseley Motors

He established the Underground Electric Railways Company of London to take control of the Metropolitan District Railway and the part built Baker Street & Waterloo Railway ; Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway ; and Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway.

The Metropolitan Railroad Company was chartered in 1853 to run streetcars down the stretch of the road on Washington Street in Roxbury, which is now served by the MBTA Silver Line.

The East London Railway was created by the East London Railway Company, a consortium of six railway companies: the Great Eastern Railway ( GER ), the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway ( LB & SCR ), the London, Chatham and Dover Railway ( LCDR ), the South Eastern Railway ( SER ), the Metropolitan Railway, and the Metropolitan District Railway.

The Government Affairs Vice President confirmed that the Metropolitan Edison Company, which operated the company, had shortly before received a warning from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ) that Babcock and Wilcox reactor valves were vulnerable to failure under certain conditions.

The plant had previously been operated by Metropolitan Edison Company ( Met-Ed ), one of GPU's regional utility operating companies.

The village was platted by the Metropolitan Mining Company in 1881.

Soon after the performance McFerrin was the first African-American to join the Metropolitan Opera Company.

By age ten, Duff landed a role in the Houston Metropolitan Dance Company ’ s production of The Nutcracker.

After playing at the Edinburgh Festival, the Royal Shakespeare Company took the production to New York, where it played at the Metropolitan Opera House and then on tour of the US and Canada.

* Enrico Caruso joins cast of New York's Metropolitan Opera Company and makes first records for the Victor Talking Machine Company.

The origins of the RER can be traced back to the 1936 Ruhlmann-Langewin plan of the Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris ( Metropolitan Railway Company of Paris ) for a " métropolitain express " ( express metro ).

With a mezzo-soprano voice, she had hopes of becoming an opera singer, but did not pass the audition with the Metropolitan Opera Company.

On 16 May 1922, Metropolitan Vickers Company, Ltd. (" Metrovick "), in Manchester commenced test broadcasting from its own station identified as 2ZY.

Metropolitan Vickers Company, Ltd., was originally formed as the British Westinghouse Company.