Word: netting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Forward Pattie Foster notched another goal for UNH in the first half when she rebounded a shot from Haroules into the net. But Harvard then settled into some good possession field hockey...
Lighting up a cheroot and pouring her self something cold, she eases her large bulk into a chair and begins to talk about herself and her friends: Pablo and Ernest, Scott and Henri. Both Henris, in fact, Matisse and Rousseau. Quickly, magically, the audience is gathered into her net of words and realizes what it must have been like to sit opposite Gertrude Stein in her Paris apartment on a stormy day in 1938, when this conversation is supposed to have taken place...
Insurers have taken some comfort from the latest turn in the Egan case: the California Supreme Court has ordered the punitive award to be cut. Noting that the $5 million sum amounted to nearly 60% of Mutual's 1974 net income, the court said that the award was bloated by the "passion and prejudice" of the jury. A new trial must now be held to set a fairer award, but the decision left no doubt that courts could continue to exact punitive damages from insurance companies...
...this has been conceived, directed, and largely financed by one man: Daniel Keith Ludwig; 82, the secretive shipowner and industrialist whose estimated net worth of $3 billion or more makes him the richest American. Tough-minded and intensely shy, Ludwig is sole owner of his enterprises and thus must answer to no one. Operating from offices in Manhattan's Burlington House, he runs a maze of companies (he has 19 in Brazil alone). His flagship firm, National Bulk Carriers, operates one of the world's largest private fleets of huge supertankers and cargo ships. He is also proprietor...
...wiped out by their higher taxes; a typical Belgian family earning $56,000 will keep no more than $32,000. But though their taxes are generally lower, Americans must shell out more of their incomes for medical and educational expenses, both of which are largely free in Europe. The net result is that many Europeans end up with somewhat fatter disposable incomes than Americans but they also face generally much higher prices. So how do they do it? How do they afford the rows of doubled-parked Mercedes and BMWs and the expensive smart clothes that are so conspicuous...