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...items as homes, autos and boats, earned $13 million last year on revenues of only $400 million. Nonetheless, the 80-year-old Amica has earned a top grade from the monthly Consumer Reports and an A-plus billing from the A.M. Best insurance-company rating service. With a modest crop of 400,000 customers and only 39 branch offices across the country, Amica has consciously avoided increasing its size to match its reputation. Says Amica Vice President Charles E. Horne: "We address a very small segment of the market, and we try to do it well. We simply seek...
This season's crop of recruits boasts an abundance of talent and height, giving Harvard the "tallest team we've ever had," according to Delaney Smith. The reason for the sudden growth spurt lies in 6-ft., 2-in. freshmen Melinda Nelson and Sandra Springer. "They are extremely talented with unlimited potential," Delaney Smith said. "They will dominate in the center position at some point, hopefully during their freshman season...
...Johnson: this distance man hailing from Seattle could be the best catch of the crop. He is desperately needed because of the graduation of last year's Co-Captain Tim Ford...
Cream of the Crop: The Crimson is all alone at the top of the ECAC with six wins and 12 points, while St. Lawrence holds onto second place with a 4-0 ECAC record. Following the Saints are Colgate, Yale, Princeton, Clarkson, RPI, Army, Cornell, Vermont, Brown, and Dartmouth, in that order...
Morris writes tellingly about the bonds between his characters and their pets, a subject that does not crop up too often in serious fiction. Victrola recounts a day in the life of a man named Bundy and the dog he inherited when an upstairs neighbor died. As he runs his errands, Bundy notices that other dogs no longer pay any attention to his faithful companion: "One by one, as Bundy's dog grew older, the younger ones ignored him. He might have been a stuffed animal leashed to a parking meter. The human parallel was too disturbing for Bundy...