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...ended with a bang last week when the state of New Jersey seized the collapsing Mutual Benefit Life (assets: $13.8 billion) in the largest such takeover in U.S. history. Regulators took action as panicky policyholders rushed to cash in their policies out of fear that worsening problems in the Newark-based firm's real estate portfolio could put their money at risk. The insurer, which has issued some 600,000 life insurance policies in the U.S., will continue to pay death benefits and other claims while the state seeks to reorganize the company...
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...withstood and deflected so much unjustified abuse. But the role of soulful sufferer was a dead end for blacks on both sides of the movie screen. Intransigent white America could not be persuaded to lift blacks to equality. Could the system then be scared into action? The Watts and Newark riots of the mid-'60s may have been mainly fratricidal, and the your-money-or- your-wife taunts of the Black Panthers may have been mainly street theater, but they lent an image of the black man as a figure of strength and menace. We don't want...
...lottery in which the odds are 3 million to 1, so some couples are bound to suffer identical fates. "No one made such a fuss over us when my husband and I both developed Graves' within three years of each other," says Denise Ploetz, an adult-education teacher from Newark, Ohio, whose condition was diagnosed in 1976. "Our doctor just said it was a coincidence...
Among those who followed NBC News and The New York Times in identifying the woman were the Detroit Free Press, The Detroit News, the Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J. and the Reuters news agency...