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...supply until 1913, when Henry Ford introduced the assembly line and mass production, making ours a consumer as well as an industrial society. As the century progressed, the service economy began to compete with industry as fortunes were made in soft drinks (Coca-Cola), processed foods (Heinz), insurance (Travelers, AIG) and retail (Sears, Wal-Mart). The information age began in the 1920s, when Walt Disney, Louis B. Mayer and the rest of Hollywood began to build businesses of scale. But it wasn't until the 1950s, with the emergence of television as a mass medium, and the two most recent...
...wonder that insurance giant AIG recently bought variable-annuity titan SunAmerica. For some reason, consumers are buying record numbers of these instruments, which are essentially tax-deferred mutual funds wrapped around life insurance. Annuities usually carry high fees and taxes. Our advice: stick to options like 401(k)s and IRAs...
Twelve representatives from Fortune 500 companies--including Goldman, Sachs & Co., American Express and AIG International--shared their experiences on leading what literature for the event calls an "untraditional lifestyle...
...Bessette [LETTERS, Oct. 28], your intention was to show that the gentleman had absolutely no taste in women. At the risk of offending our sensibilities, he certainly succeeded--and how! What came through more pungently than anything else, however, was that Malik has even less manners than taste. IMOHIMI AIG-IMOUKHUEDE Lagos
Consider New York Senator Alfonse D'Amato, Dole's campaign co-chairman, who, U.S. officials told TIME, recently held hostage the foreign aid of the African nation of Zimbabwe at the behest of American International Group, an insurance giant that is a major donor to the G.O.P. Since 1990, AIG has given almost $300,000 in "soft money" to Republican Party committees, including $178,000 in this election cycle. An AIG subsidiary, Unity Insurance Co., is the only U.S.-based financial-services firm in Zimbabwe. Since 1987 that country has been demanding that foreign-owned financial companies draft plans...