Word: cna
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hushed but urgent campaign to prevent the influential Business Roundtable from endorsing a more modest alternative to the President's 1,300-page plan. White House economics chief Robert Rubin and Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman telephoned insurance-company CEOs at Prudential, Chubb, American International Group and CNA to urge them not to endorse the rival plan, backed by Representative Jim Cooper of Tennessee and Senator John Breaux of Louisiana. But the Administration's pre-emptive strike met with resistance. Late Friday an informal straw poll of the Roundtable's policy committee turned up broad support for Cooper-Breaux...