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What's going on? "In the '90s, the severity and number of catastrophes--not just well-known events like Hurricane Andrew and the Northridge, California, earthquake but many smaller ones as well--increased dramatically," explains Insurance Information Institute spokeswoman Jeanne Salvatore. At the same time, home-repair costs are rising 7% a year. The stock market is no longer providing insurers a fat return on invested premiums. And then there's mold or, as many news stories call it, "toxic mold." Salvatore says, "We've always paid mold claims. What's new is multimillion-dollar jury awards." In Texas alone...
...received your home-insurance bill this year, you're probably surprised at how much it has gone up. Why? Don't blame Osama bin Laden. The reasons for the increase range from household mold to the sagging stock market. During the first half of the '90s, average annual premiums held steady at about $420, then crept up at about the rate of inflation. That all changed last year, when rates shot up 6%. This year industry analysts expect a rise of 7%--three times the increase in overall consumer prices. Increases will range up to 10% in Washington State...
...surprised to find she plays tennis?who knew? KEN LIVINGSTONE London mayor allegedly pushes tabloid reporter over a wall. Britons are excited?they haven't had a two-fisted politician since Thatcher BERNIE EBBERS Ex-WorldCom CEO summoned by U.S. Congress. That whole bull market thing during the '90s? Never mind. It was an accounting error...
...1980s, I often covered the city's Latino street-gang culture. So when the Jose Padilla story broke last week, I felt as though I knew this guy. What I wasn't as familiar with, however, was the Muslim culture Jose had embraced here in Florida in the early '90s, especially the extremist brand of Islam he later adopted. As a result, to explain this tragic turn his life took, I relied on Islamic community leaders in Broward County and colleagues like Hasnain to help me understand the thuggish subculture that is perverting Islam--which turned out to be just...
...WASHINGTON POST called the glass half full in its Page One story, headlined '90S BOOM HAD BROAD IMPACT; 2000 CENSUS CITES INCOME GROWTH AMONG POOR, UPPER MIDDLE CLASS. The piece noted that the proportion of households at the low end, earning less than $15,000 a year, shrank, and the Midwest and South fared especially well in the 1990s, with income rising and poverty declining more than the national average...