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...basis. Saga correctly reckoned that older homeowners were less risky to insure, so their premiums could be lower. Saga applied the same formula to sell low-cost auto insurance and then broadened to offer a full range of insurance products. Of course, other insurers use age as a pricing criterion, so Saga also stresses not only value but customer service...
...reference to the U.S. as "the world's oldest democracy," however, may need some qualification. Notwithstanding the many contributions the U.S. has made to the world, some say New Zealand was the first true democracy since it was the first nation to enfranchise women. Others use as a criterion the first election of parliament members (Iceland in A.D. 930). Some would ask, If the oldest democracy is not to be found somewhere in ancient Greece, why did the word first appear there? Zafiris Tzannatos Cephalonia, Greece...
Several months after a black temporary employee in Harvard’s alumni office charged that the University was discriminating against minorities by using credit scores as a criterion for employment, the case is at a standstill and has yet to be resolved, according to the employee’s lawyer...
...EEOC is still determining whether using credit histories as a criterion for employment in fact an illegal form of discrimination...
...Janus was a leading distributor of foreign films--such instant classics as Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries, with Bibi Andersson (above), and François Truffaut's Jules and Jim. Janus later spawned the Criterion Collection, the ultra-classy DVD outfit. Now the child is paying tribute to the parent company, with a 13-lb. 12-oz., foot-wide box containing 50 discs of wonderful films once handled by Janus, plus a 240-page, lavishly illustrated book. With important works by Jean Renoir, Sergei Eisenstein and Michelangelo Antonioni, this package really is essential--the perfect starter set for a full film...