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...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 a decade, rising stock prices brought substantial rewards, often helping to mask losses in core insurance operations. By the year 2000, European insurers' holdings of stocks collectively exceeded that of bonds. Insurers became...
While webmail sucessfully allows users to check their e-mail while off-campus, Davis said HASCS has been focusing on improving speed of the service. Currently, said Davis, it takes between five and six seconds for the inbox to load...
...boiler room, Kamagi, a six-armed troll, keeps stern watch over dozens of soot-ball slaves--cute vermin, thrilled when Chihiro shows up to lighten their work load. Ren, a scrubwoman, offers Chihiro the weary wisdom of the eternal underclass. The child's best hope for fleeing Yubaba on the undersea railroad is young Haku, a boy who can take on the shape of a dragon. When Chihiro and this beautiful beast take to the sky, they express the most elevated forms of teamwork and puppy love...
...Safari and Chevrolet Astro vans. The new materials are stiffer, lighter and less brittle in cold temperatures than other plastics. Improvements in strength and reductions in weight lead to fuel savings. The next step is for GM to use nanocomposites in car interiors and bumpers and eventually in load-bearing structural parts, such as vehicle frames...
...problem in many Harvard arguments arises when, as in the above conversation, the conservative tries to make a moral argument or the liberal tries to make an empirical one. The conservative feels his liberal opponent is fudging the numbers (“the study you cite was a load of malarkey!”) and the liberal feels the conservative is dissembling about his true motivations (“come on, why are you really opposed to a living wage?”) . All too often, we are deaf to one another...