Decades ago, clients would receive a bill with only a lump sum and the statement "for professional services rendered".
Pay a lump sum, and the insurer guarantees you an income to the end of your days.
Delta pilots are able to take half their retirement benefits up front in a lump sum, and the rest in an annuity.
Remember the parable of the unmerciful servant: a servant owed the king a large sum, and the king forgave him his debt.
But everybody eats savory breakfasts at least occasionally, from bacon and eggs to bagels and lox, dim sum and the breakfast burrito.
(Some companies allow retirees to take part of the pension as a lump sum and the rest in reduced monthly payments).
"My only concern is when you let people take the lump sum and the annuity in whatever portions they want, they don't do it.
Place the numbers 1 to 14 around a circle so that both the sum and the (positive difference) of any two neighboring numbers is a prime.
The parts, however, are as as good as the sum, and the vignettes in this stream of consciousness are sharp, often witty and unexpectedly surprising (a man "levitating" at right angles to a wall).
The company has bought several machine-learning and robotics companies, including Boston Dynamics, the firm that produces lifelike military robots, for an undisclosed sum; and the smart thermostat maker, Nest Labs, for $3.2bn£1.9bnbn).
The city will pay the $3 million in a lump sum, and the state Surrogate's Court will decide how that is divided between the family and its lawyers, said Kate O'Brien Ahlers, the spokeswoman for the corporation counsel's office.
