My gut feeling is that insurance companies are the Vegas books, and the actuaries are the odds makers.    From Wordnik.com.  [blog maverick] Reference

Most actuaries are very good with this language, vba.    From Wordnik.com.  [purplecigar Diary Entry] Reference

BOROWITZ: I want HBO to do a show about actuaries now.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 14, 2004] Reference

KASICH: Even the actuaries just came out just a week ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Two Presidential Debates Down, One to Go: Veteran Panel Surveys the Political Landscape - October 16, 2000] Reference

Ultimately, actuaries and auditors will force the inevitable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corporate Pension Bomb Set To Explode] Reference

And you guys are very funny, actuaries, like -- well -- well.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2009] Reference

There are actuaries who have all kinds of different backgrounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2009] Reference

We brought together actuaries from various branches of government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health Care Briefing By Ira Magaziner Et Al] Reference

In early spring of 1993, the White House assembled a group of actuaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magaziner Release On Actuary Numbers] Reference

Most mortals can't possibly spot the traps that agents or actuaries lay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here They Go Again] Reference

MR. MCCURRY: I believe that the actuaries are looking at exactly that issue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry] Reference

They have actuaries who are figuring out exactly how to make it so that you.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2010] Reference

And a lot of actuaries and people in his own administration say that isn't true.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2005] Reference

These numbers are based on the work of the Social Security and Medicare actuaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medicare Gets New Lease On Life; Social Security Remains Healthy] Reference

We checked with the actuaries and said fine, you can have an open enrollment period.    From Wordnik.com.  [DeParle: GOP plan doesn't 'make sense'] Reference

They've been checked and rechecked by both government and private sector analysts and actuaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing] Reference

If you look at the actuaries, our plan extends it out to 2055, and theirs does not extend it a day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Joe Lockhart] Reference

The insurance sector is commonly associated with dour actuaries and steady-as-she-goes expectations.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.K. Insurers Look Ready for Mergers] Reference

But they can't be used for both -- a point the CBO and Medicare's actuaries made in their cost estimates.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicare reform illusion] Reference

We have had outside actuaries from people who work for private business, working to verify these numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mtv Interview With The President] Reference

  "You've got that football team, the actuaries, the professors from Bryn Mawr, and now the Girl Scouts.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hundreds of Hefner Girlfriends Lost, Feared Dead] Reference

And that's the study of the congressional plan that he's modeled his proposal on by the Medicare actuaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Election 2000: Gore and Bush Face Off in Their First Presidential Debate - October 3, 2000] Reference

CONRAD: We've consulted the best actuaries in the country, people who are most knowledgeable about the industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 18, 2009] Reference

Take actuaries, whose expertise in calculating risk can influence decisions on what life insurance a family buys.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Career in Finance/Insurance] Reference

Before President Obama took office, congressional experts and Medicare actuaries expressed dismay over these added costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold Pollack: Double Count of Irony in Republican Arguments About Medicare] Reference

I mean, that's why they are always looking for actuaries and mathematicians, kind of hard to buckle down and (INAUDIBLE).    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2009] Reference

Then we went to, I think, 10 outside actuaries, including big firms who represent major players in health care in America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Conference W Italian Prime Minister] Reference

CPAs, financial analysts, finance directors, actuaries and mathematicians are also highly sought after by corporate America.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Secure Is Your Job?] Reference

Because what that says is, that these actuaries who work for insurance companies, you know, they don't have a political agenda.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2007] Reference

The draft has furnished figures regarding the Negro's health and longevity which hitherto were not available to insurance actuaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, the Spanish-American War, and the Late Imbroglio With Mexico] Reference

MR. SPERLING: I'll let Ken answer because this actually is not the administration's forecast, this is the Social Security actuaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social Security Brief] Reference

As a consequence, the actuaries and all other health care experts project a return to higher growth in the out-years beyond 2003, okay?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Gene Sperling And Chris Jennings] Reference

As the attached letter indicates, these actuaries maintain that "... the process was very thorough" and the methodology and assumptions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magaziner Release On Actuary Numbers] Reference

The HIV epidemic was cited repeatedly by executives, as if the plague were a bit of naughtiness devised to throw the actuaries off track.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil's Waltz]

And let me also say, we had lots and lots of insurance actuaries and others look at this for a year, and constantly labor over the costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health Care Discussion With Small Business Owners] Reference

Well, we all know the job market is discouraging, but the top three recession-proof jobs are mathematicians, statisticians, and actuaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2009] Reference

Basically, what had been found in 1980 and - in East Tapiot (ph), in - in Jerusalem, was 10 actuaries (ph), and six of them were inscribed.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 26, 2007] Reference