Word: got
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When O'Callahan told this story to a group of seventh-graders in a tough Boston school, three unruly boys kept roaming around the room. O'Callahan thought he had failed to capture his audience. But a week later he got a call from the school's principal. One of the roamers kept singing over and over the song from "Raspberries." When he was asked to retell the story to students who had been absent, the boy went on for about 45 minutes, scarcely missing a detail...
...Glen Young, a farmer in Ravenna, Ohio, after a prolonged hassle, got Western Reserve Mutual to pay $2,100 for his pickup truck, which ran into a ditch and was totally wrecked last October. A few days later, says Young, "I was told that my coverage would be terminated in 15 days, not only on the policies on my three vehicles, but also on the farm policy I have had for eleven years with Western Reserve's sister company, Lightning Rod Mutual." Young protested to his Senator, Democrat Howard Metzenbaum, and his coverage was extended after an aide...
...hearings earlier this year, Metzenbaum, chairman of a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, got an earful of such gripes. Widows and divorcees howled that their auto insurance premiums had been raised sharply because of their change in status. An Arizona college student and part-time waitress reported that a company had canceled her auto coverage because "waitresses are considered transients." Metzenbaum's conclusion: "A persuasive case has been made that, in order to maximize profits, property and casualty companies [a category that includes auto insurers] are rejecting 'clean' risks in an apparent attempt to eliminate all but the ideal...
...rebuttal, insurance companies assert that the complainers are a small fraction of policyholders. That seems to be generally true, but the record varies from company to company. In 1976 the Illinois insurance department got 2.2 complaints per $1 million of auto policy premiums for State Farm Mutual and 43.85 for Kenilworth, a much smaller firm...
...tributary 250 miles inland. The factory and its separate 55,000-kw power plant was floated into position over 4,000 submerged pilings last month. Then water under the pilings was drained, and Brazil's Munguba district, which before Ludwig was little more than a swatch of forest, got a new industrial enterprise. Why was the plant towed halfway round the globe instead of being built on the site? Says an I.H.I, spokesman: "It would have taken far more time to build so sophisticated a project there, with inadequate roads and cargo-handling facilities...