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Under Dukakis' program, employers would be required to provide a basic insurance package to workers, and to pay a portion, perhaps 80 percent, of the annual premium. The coverage would pay for hospital stays, clinical visits, tests and diagnostic services, prenatal and pediatric care, and mental health care. Dukakis' plan would also provide tax breaks to assist small businesses in establishing insurance plans...
...response to the campus disturbances of the late 1960s, Ivy educators say search committees began to place a premium on crisis management. The result was that law school deans and those with strong administrative backgrounds and keen negotiating skills fast became the presidential ideal...
...nearly 70 times the amount of rain insurance Chubb sold last year. Stunned by the size of its potential liabilities, Chubb in July placed a $40 million limit on Good Weather's sales, refused to issue 6,200 policies, and offered to refund twice the amount of the premium checks, or about $20 million...
...fair, cried several hundred farmers whose attorneys agreed last week to consolidate their lawsuits into one national class action against Chubb. In most states, insurance laws dictate that coverage cannot be canceled once the initial premium is paid. Among Chubb's defenses: it did not realize that Good Weather agents had oversold the policies, mostly within two days of the deadline, without permission. But the plaintiffs counter that Chubb, which specializes in up-scale homeowners' and commercial insurance, has been in the business for more than a century and should know how to monitor demand. Insurance authorities in at least...
...Daily Racing Form (123,000) and Seventeen (1.9 million), from Walter Annenberg, the California businessman and philanthropist, for $3 billion. While TV Guide may be the undisputed king of television listings and boast the largest circulation of any U.S. magazine, media experts concur that Murdoch is paying a premium price that will add to his already considerable debt load. But Murdoch, 57, has been a gambler since his teenage days, when he bet on cards and horses. And no one disputes that he has a keen eye for value. Says Peter Diamandis, a former publisher of New York magazine: "Murdoch...