Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chief source of their trouble is the widely misunderstood liability coverage-which is quite unlike other forms of insurance. When a person buys fire, medical or collision insurance, his company pays him directly for his losses. But a liability policy does not protect a driver against the cost of injury to himself; it protects him against the possibility of having to pay for someone else's injuries in the event that a court finds him at fault. Once that happens, the driver's company must pay the judgment against him. And with its own money at stake...
...harder to get a divorce, and most now prohibit abortion except in unusual circumstances. In Rumania, where Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu has declared war on "levity toward the family," both doctor and patient in an abortion case get stiff prison terms. The government makes it so hard to buy contraceptives that birth control pills have become an appreciated currency for tipping-even for those who get hold of only a few weeks' supply but take them anyway, in the mistaken belief than an ounce of prevention is better than none...
...Coach Lombardi, who in nine years has turned the Packers from the patsies of the N.F.L. into the most successful team in pro football history. One report had Lombardi giving up coaching but retaining his Green Bay general manager's job; another had him heading a syndicate to buy the A.F.L.'s New York Jets; still another had him giving up football altogether. "I'm exhausted," was all Vince himself would say. "I just want to take a good, long rest and give Vince Lombardi a real hard look...
...Chesapeake & Ohio-Baltimore & Ohio are moving toward a merger that will probably be consummated some time in 1970. The C. & O. took effective control of the B. & O. five years ago in a move that enabled the limping B. & O. to use C. & O. credit ratings to buy new equipment ($312 million worth last year). Together, the two lines achieved savings averaging $35 million annually. By merging with the Norfolk & Western, they estimate that they can save another $30 million a year. The merger would create a system every bit as affluent as the Penn Central. It would include...
Next, who knows? She is game to go to Africa to buy up amulets from detribalized Africans. Or even pith helmets from retreating British garrisons. Her one question: "Got any contacts...