Check to see if some of your benefits -- such as on-the-job disability pay -- can be put on a direct payment rather than an insured basis at a savings to you.

Pure altruism consists of sacrificing something for someone other than the self ( e. g. sacrificing time, energy or possessions ) with no expectation of any compensation or benefits, either direct, or indirect ( e. g., receiving recognition for the act of giving ).

Healing is the ability to induct health benefits from some usually unspecified higher source where the healer can direct the effects to the beneficiary.

As a consequence, kaleidoscope became produced in large numbers, but yielded no direct financial benefits to Brewster.

Young men considering emigration looked at not only the gap between higher hourly ' direct wages ' in the United States and Germany but also the differential in ' indirect wages ,' that is, social benefits, which favored staying in Germany.

Theoretically, the characteristic should be more exaggerated in one of the sexes ; it must be used to indicate dominance ; have no direct survival benefits ; help the organism gain survival costs ; positive allometry should be observed.

Utilitarians argue that justification of slavery, torture or mass murder would require unrealistically large benefits to outweigh the direct and extreme suffering to victims.

For employee performance management, using integrated software, rather than a spreadsheet based recording system, may deliver a significant return on investment through a range of direct and indirect sales benefits, operational efficiency benefits and by unlocking the latent potential in every employees work day ( i. e. the time they spend not actually doing their job ).

As the National Kidney Foundation puts it, “ Offering direct or indirect economic benefits in exchange for organ donation is inconsistent with our values as a society.

For shorter distances, the higher cost of DC conversion equipment compared to an AC system may still be warranted, due to other benefits of direct current links.

This trading system will allow direct benefits to be accrued by those users shifting to public transportation or by those reducing their peak-hour travel rather than the government.

Although Richard had been offered Caterina Visconti, one of the daughters of Bernabò Visconti of Milan, who would have brought a great deal of money with her as dowry – Anne was chosen, bringing no direct financial benefits to England.

* Provides direct financial benefits for conservation

The direct beneficiaries of incremental improvements to the surrounding neighborhood by others would be the land's occupants, and absentee landlords would benefit only by virtue of price competition amongst present and prospective tenants for those incremental benefits ; the only direct effect of LVT on prices in this case is to lower the unearned increment ( reduce the amount of the socially generated benefit that is privately captured as an increase in the market price of the land ).

For example, economic analysis may suggest that direct subsidies ( cash benefits ) would be more efficient than indirect subsidies ( such as trade barriers ); this does not necessarily imply that direct subsidies are bad, but they may be more efficient or effective than other mechanisms to achieve the same ( or better ) results.

This visit besides other benefits offered him a chance to meet the direct disciples of Shaykh ‘ Abd al-Qādir Jīlānī.

The Lacandón farmers replant the milpa in tree crops such as rubber or fruit and reap the direct benefits from the plants.

However, control over the type of cash crop and livestock ( and benefits derived therefrom ) tended to rest with men, even where women had made an exceptional and direct contribution to the labour involved.

This trading system would allow direct benefits to be accrued by those users shifting to public transportation or by those reducing their peak-hour travel rather than the government.

A direct connection to the operator billing platform requires integration with the operator, but provides a number of benefits:

Unfortunately, many of the direct, and virtually all of the indirect, benefits of DG are not captured within traditional utility cash-flow accounting.

: The direct costs of implementing the Clean Air Act from 1970 to 1990, including annual compliance expenditures in the private sector and program implementation costs in the public sector, totaled $ 523 billion in 1990 dollars.

In 1999, Leighton appeared in the independent feature film Angels, Baby !, it received a limited release late that year, that same year she appeared in the romantic comedy Seven Girlfriends and the thriller Clean and Narrow which was released direct to video in early 2000.

As an assistant to Bruce Babbitt from 1993 to 1995, Sweeney helped manage the 75, 000-person Department of the Interior, and helped direct Clinton administration efforts to protect the Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act.

In addition to this direct employment, the government heavily subsidizes other major employers in other areas of the economy, including Great Greenland's sealskin purchases, Pilersuisoq's rural stores, and some of Air Greenland and Royal Arctic's regional routes.

Air Greenland and Continental Airlines formerly ran direct flights from the US East Coast from 2007 to 2008, but these were discontinued.

The AFSA was to direct the communications and electronic intelligence activities of the U. S. military intelligence units: the Army Security Agency, the Naval Security Group, and the Air Force Security Service.

* 1962 – Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.

Another change in late 2009 and early 2010 resulted in the transfer of the ICBM force from AFSPC and the B-52 and B-2 strategic bomber force from ACC to the newly-established Air Force Global Strike Command ( AFGSC ), which is a direct descendant of SAC.

Air gaps are also used to keep a transformer from saturating, especially audio-frequency transformers in circuits that have a direct current component flowing through the windings.

Air traffic control ( ATC ) is a service provided by ground-based controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and through controlled airspace.

The Fleet Air Arm was formed in 1924 as organisational unit of the Royal Air Force which was then operating the aircraft embarked on RN ships – the Royal Naval Air Service having been merged with the British Army's Royal Flying Corps in 1918 – and did not come under the direct control of the Admiralty until mid-1939.

Air Canada Jazz operates 7 flights daily with direct service to Halifax and Toronto.

International services from Japan, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia also land at Gold Coast Airport with airlines including Flyscoot, Jetstar, Air New Zealand, Pacific Blue and Airasia X. Brisbane Airport is less than one hour from the centre of Gold Coast, and direct trains operate.

:: The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to ensure that any activity ( including the provision of any equipment or facility or the assignment or detail of any personnel ) under this chapter does not include or permit direct participation by a member of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps in a search, seizure, arrest, or other similar activity unless participation in such activity by such member is otherwise authorized by law.

Aerial operations were split into two, east of Cape Tenez in Algeria, with British aircraft under Air Marshal Sir William Welsh and west of Cape Tenez, all American aircraft under Major General Jimmy Doolittle, under the direct command of Major General Patton.

Cadets who have ancestors who served in the Air Service, Air Corps, or Army Air Forces, or those who are direct descendants of Air Force Academy graduates, are eligible to wear the gold wings and silver prop design.

Eastern's massive Atlanta hub placed it in direct competition with Delta Air Lines, where both carriers competed heavily with one another to neither's benefit.

The arrangement requires certain telephone circuits ( private wire or direct line to Toll Board ) between the Air Defense Control Centers ( A. D. C. C.

The 522nd Fighter Squadron deployed to Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia in direct support of Operation SOUTHERN WATCH.

American Airlines, American Eagle, Delta Air Lines, Miami Air, Sky King Airlines, and United Airlines all operate regular flights between MIA and several airports in Cuba, one of a few airports with direct airlink between the two nations.

( Information was provided by a former Air Force member with direct knowledge of events.

As a young man, he loved the Skye Boat Song and the Londonderry Air, and was struck not only by their direct emotional appeal but by their melodic construction and careful placing of climaxes.