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Industry analysts say insurers' investment losses, not just jury awards, are behind the crisis. In bull markets, insurers count on investment income to offset underwriting losses; that ended when the 1990s' stock bubble burst. Although malpractice insurers make only about 20% of their investment income from stocks, the losses were steep and came in tandem with low bond yields...
Martin wore a black sleeveless top with the word “Harvard” emblazoned in a burst of glittery print. It didn’t look like anything they sell in the Coop...
...raise economy is partly a predictable, temporary aftershock from the burst Internet bubble and recession. With core inflation (excluding food and energy) officially running at just 1.5%, workers are relatively well equipped to cope with stingy employers--particularly in an era of 0% auto financing and mortgage rates that last week dropped yet again to historic lows. Dramatically declining energy prices since the Iraq war ended are another welcome buffer, allowing consumers to keep more of what they earn...
...midway point, however, Radcliffe shifted into another gear and made its move, losing Brown with a quick burst of speed before pouncing on the Tigers...
...another open question is precisely how the disease spreads. Doctors first concluded that the agent responsible for SARS is transmitted by droplets expelled by coughs or sneezes. After the burst of cases in Hong Kong's Amoy Gardens complex and the particularly aggressive spread of SARS in Toronto among health-care workers, however, scientists now speculate that there may be other mechanisms as well. In Amoy Gardens, for example, transmission may have occurred via contaminated fecal matter leaking from a broken sewage pipe. That would explain the lack of direct contact, as well as the fact that all these cases...