Word: lloyds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Inevitably, the charity tennis event at London's Battersea Park was heralded as a "love doubles" match, even though mixed doubles are notoriously taxing on marriages and other loving relationships. John Lloyd and his more famous wife Chris Evert Lloyd were paired against Bjorn Borg and Fiancee Mariana Simionescu, who plan to be married in July. Between hugs, pats, kisses and giggles, the foursome played reasonably serious tennis, with Chris and John winning, 6-4, 6-3. For that they were awarded $93,000, while the losers won $60,500. Charity got $35,000, leading some to wonder...
...blow to NBC was softened somewhat by the insurance purchased from Lloyd's of London four years ago against just such an eventuality. The company is covered for 90% of the $87 million it agreed to pay the Soviet Union and the International Olympic Committee for television rights and technical faculties. Since it has ponied up $70 million so far, this means it should recoup $63 million. Uninsured losses include $30 million spent on training of personnel, travel to Moscow and promotion; $1 million paid to a West German middleman, Lothar Bock, for helping NBC win the broadcast rights...
Equally important, 76er management traded away two of the team's bigger ball hogs, George McGinnis and Lloyd Free, then moved 7-ft. Center Caldwell Jones to forward to ease Erving's rebounding burden. Freed at last to work his moves on the outside and levitate past foot-tangled defenders, Erving became the Dr. J of old. After he scored a career-high 44 points against Houston, Rockets Coach Del Harris said: "You couldn't have stopped him with a hockey stick. We had a whole committee of people on him, and they couldn't begin...
...suggested ways to improve writing are truly new. What is new is the national conviction that something must be done about writing, and the challenge of trying to spread writing skills widely throughout a society as diverse as the U.S.'s. As Richard Lloyd-Jones, associate director of the Iowa institute, observes, "In the 12th century, you could have 50 to 100 scribes take care of all the business of the Court of Chancery in England. Only in the 20th century have we had the notion that everyone needs to be able to do it. Until now we have...
...than economic growth. The hottest topic among Washington economists is the "supply side" theory. It maintains that Keynesian policies placed too much emphasis on stimulating consumer and business demand and paid too little attention to stimulating the production, or supply, of goods and services. Supply siders, such as Senator Lloyd Bentsen and Michael Evans, the president of a Washington-based economic advisory service, propose tax cuts for business to spur investment rather than just tax relief for consumers to heighten spending...