Word: lloyds
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What is the real reason Congress is doing this? Because the legislation is just what banks, credit-card companies, debt consolidators and other financial-services businesses ordered. To get it, they retained high-powered Washington lobbyists, among them Haley Barbour, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, and Lloyd Bentsen, onetime Senator and Treasury Secretary. The price tag for lobbying: more than $5 million...
...buzzword at all the L.A. hotspots. It's gotten to be such a hot term in the industry that Bollywood "news areas" are turning up all over the web - it even has its own section next to Reuters and the Associated Press on Yahoo Entertainment News. Andrew Lloyd Webber, as I reported a few weeks back, is working on an epic Bollywood musical; agents are trying to lure Bollywood stars; producers at a couple of major studios are even talking possible releases of subtitled Hindi musicals. I could give you a quick guide to Bollywood stars and hits, but that...
Last summer Lloyd Abert of St. Louis, Mo., judged the Rocky Mountaineer tour he took with his family (including his 84-year-old mother) one of the best of his life. "What they provided," he said, "was a dream far beyond any expectations. The service was extraordinary. I don't know of a person who wasn't happy on that train." So appreciative of the scenery was his family that they took more than 700 photos...
...those bust Names who really did lose his cuff links. I joined Lloyd's in 1984; no mention of asbestos was made to me. Ten years later, engulfed by uncontainable losses, I applied to the Hardship Committee for help. The committee took every penny of my remaining capital and income, and demanded a further sum from my wife. We were left looking for a new home with a total net income of 5,000[pounds] a year to support us and our two small children. NICHOLAS BROWNE Cambridge, England...
...failed to distinguish between the Lloyd's of 27 years ago and the new Lloyd's that has learned from its mistakes and emerged stronger from the experience. You should have waited to publish your piece until there was an outcome to the Jaffray court case. RICHARD S. LEHMAN Boca Raton...