Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spartan office on Capitol Hill, Democratic Congressman Jim Lloyd of California scanned a letter from seven liberal colleagues last week. They urged him to support their drive to reduce sharply President Ford's proposed all-time high ($113.3 billion) defense budget for fiscal 1977. With no hesitation, Lloyd took a felt-tipped pen and scrawled a bold, red NO across the top of the letter, then underscored the word three times for emphasis...
...withdraw from the race. Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo, who could control 30 votes at the convention, probably will announce his support of Jackson soon. Carter and Udall also are setting up extensive efforts in Pennsylvania. Then, on May 1, Carter hopes to make a splashy showing in Texas. Senator Lloyd Bentsen, a favorite son, has tightly organized the state. But Carter is challenging Bentsen in every district and plans a high-powered drive to win as many seats as possible. Beyond Texas, the candidates' strategies and expectations will be dictated largely by how well they do in the intervening...
...from the Sunbelt, but they range across the political spectrum from conservative to moderate to very liberal: California's Ronald Reagan, Alabama's George Wallace, Georgia's Jimmy Carter, Arizona's Morris Udall, Oklahoma's Fred Harris and, until they dropped out, Texas' Lloyd Bentsen and North Carolina's Terry Sanford. After the 1980 census, if the current population shifts continue, the states of the South and West will increase their total congressional representation from 210 to 225 seats. The states of the Northeast and Midwest will lose 15 of their seats, declining...
...disaster? For Lloyd's of London and other insurers, certainly: the $50 million insurance money that they stand to pay to Olympic Maritime S.A. would be the largest insurance payoff in maritime history (previous record: $27 million). For Christina Onassis, hardly. The Olympic Bravery had been headed only for expensive unemployment. Its maiden voyage had been destined to end in a Norwegian fjord, where it was to join at least 385 other supertankers lying idle round the world, waiting for oil shipments to pick up. Potential mothballing costs: as much as $20,000 a day. The insurance payment would...
...Onassis fleet has had an excellent safety record in the past, and there is no question that Lloyd's will pay. Says a Lloyd's spokesman: "Our check is already drawn up and waits only for signature...