The majority of existing annuities were sold on a "single-life" basis, leaving many widows or widowers without provision.
They buy meal tickets so that 42 elderly Jewish widows and widowers can eat lunch in the municipal restaurant, a glorified soup kitchen, three days a week; 15 more are on a waiting list.
Abdullah's succession as Saudi Arabia's sixth monarch resulted from his father King Abdulaziz ibn Saud's strategy of marrying the daughters and widows of defeated enemies.
1. Women of Africa want to live in a peaceful continent in which there are no widows as a result of senseless killings and war, a continent in which they are not sexually abused and violated and in which suffering is not caused by the self-interest of a few corrupt and power hungry leaders.
Q: Is the prime minister aware that at Senate estimates the secretary of the department of veterans affairs confirmed a saving of $65.1m in the forward estimates as a result of cutting the pensions of some 280,000 veterans, partners of veterans, and war widows?
"I am very good with widows," Heath would say.
By the time he was on his last legs he had shared touching scenes with Cora Ann Mitchelll, bringing that hard-as-nails stare she modelled in 1980s crime drama Widows to a new generation).
Giving in secret may earn rewards in heaven, but widows' mites did not build America's great private hospitals, private universities or, indeed, its opera houses.Giving until it hurtsMr Vilar thinks that the Met simply does not understand the American model of philanthropy, in which giving marches in step with the ups and downs of the financial markets.
Clergymen maybe, or lawyers from town, or half-pay officers, or widows with only a jointure.
The Lib Dems' preferred wheeze, a "mansion tax" on expensive houses, was rejected by Mr Cameron who feared tales of widows on modest pensions being forced to sell family homes bought for a song decades earlier.
But stamp duty will not oblige widows to move.Add it all up, and another screen hit comes to mind.
