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...insurance subsidiary. Wait a minute - aren't insurers supposed to be the stodgiest, most conservative investors around? Even if they can't forecast the future, they are, after all, the companies that other people turn to for protection against risk. Like Fortis, the entire European insurance industry has got ill from the stock market bug it caught a decade ago - and everyone who owns European stocks is feeling their pain. When interest rates dropped in the early 1990s, insurers began to load up on equities at the expense of real estate and their traditional investment mainstay, bonds. For almost...
...amused either; he said that while he could ignore getting personally knocked by Eddie, "there are some heroes who are sacred to a people, and these comments poisoned an otherwise funny movie. Why put cyanide in the Kool-Aid?" So far, the movie's fans have exhibited no ill effects...
Sure, Fitzpatrick made mistakes. He missed an open Morris a couple of times, and he threw an ill-fated lateral behind Palazzo, resulting in a critical fourth-quarter fumble that turned the tide for good...
...package it sent two cosmonauts on an orbiting space station. The country's first post-Soviet census began in remote areas last week and will continue until Oct. 16. The results are expected to confirm Russian demographers' projections of a steady decline in the country's population owing to ill health, mass poverty and an aging population. U.S. Counting Blessings In Lili's Wake Half a million people in Texas and Louisiana battened down the hatches when Hurricane Lili came calling Friday. The precautions saved lives: Lili's 145 km/h winds felled trees, blew off roofs and shattered shop windows...
...cured, I am determined to go to Switzerland," Eckstein says. "I don't want to suffer needlessly." Eckstein would not be traveling to Zurich to see its famous Bahnhofstrasse. He would be part of a small but growing number of non-Swiss known grimly as "death tourists," terminally ill people who come to Zurich to take their own lives. Eckstein is a member of Dignitas, a controversial Zurich-based organization that offers assisted suicide to people suffering from incurable conditions. Dignitas rents an apartment in the city where clients self-administer a fatal dose of barbiturates and slowly fade away...