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...firms, the first between major mutual life insurance companies. In a mutual life insurance firm the policyholders are the owners. If the merger is completed, a process both companies admit may take more than a year to accomplish, it would create a $10 billion enterprise that would rank as the nation's 25th largest insurer. "It's very hard, in this type of climate when economic realities are changing very quickly, not to talk about ways to strengthen your company," says a spokesman for Phoenix Mutual. Both insurers have about a third of their assets tied up in real estate...
...Where do you rank Johnson historically...
...government trusteeship, Teamsters leaders agreed to major reforms. If the Orlando convention follows the new rules, in December the 1.6 million members of the most powerful U.S. union will freely elect their president and 17-member executive board for the first time. That's good news for the rank and file, whose pooh-bahs have been ripping them off for decades. The bad news is that none of the viable presidential candidates are completely free of old Teamster associations or questionable past performances...
...caution" for priests who face the issue. The views flew in the face of Vatican pronouncements made a year earlier, and the doctrine committee of the U.S. bishops later issued an unusual attack on the study. But since the mid-1970s, National Opinion Research Center polls have shown that rank-and-file U.S. Catholics are consistently more liberal than Protestants on the issue of premarital sex. The latest finding: 84% of Catholics do not always find it wrong, vs. 69% of Protestants...
John Smith, a white, scores 327 on a vocational-aptitude test. Fred Jones, a black, gets only 283. But if the two applicants are sent to a prospective employer, their test results are said to rank identically at the 70th percentile. A computer error? No. The raw score Jones earned was compared only with the marks obtained by fellow blacks. Smith's number went into a blend of scores made by whites and "others." If a Hispanic takes the same test, his raw score is converted on a third curve reserved for Hispanics only...