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TARIQ AZIZ His boss is a nutter, but smooth-talking envoy has survived purges and a thousand talk shows...
Faced with such unsettling coincidences, some key industry figures have begun to wonder whether they aren't seeing a preview of the costs climate change may impose on society. "The insurance business is first in line to be affected by climate change," says Franklin Nutter, president of the Reinsurance Association of America. "It is clear that global warming could bankrupt the industry." Insurers must set their premiums in anticipation of future calamities, Nutter and his colleagues know, and when they look ahead, they see prospects even more alarming than those in the recent past...
These risks and the crucial role played by the $1.41 trillion insurance industry in the global economy could change the dynamic of the debate about global warming. Last fall Nutter told an industry conference that climate change is an issue in which it may prove to be in the industry's interest to assume an advocacy role. In Europe insurance giants have already begun to lobby governments to take action, but in the U.S. the alliance between insurers and greens remains in the courtship phase. Nutter has invited Jeremy Leggett of Greenpeace to speak to his association about the threat...
AUTHORS: MUSIC AND LYRICS BY MARK NUTTER; BOOK BY PETER BURNS, MARK NUTTER, ROB RILEY AND TOM WOLFE...
...press conference yesterday at the high-priced offices of Nutter, McClennen & Fish, LaVigne's lawyer, Alan D. Rose '67, announced the conclusion of the bobsledder's feud with the U.S. Bobsledding Federation. After being allowed back on the team as a "non-participating" member of the team, LaVigne had been allowed to join Gault as an alternate, Rose announced...