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...refunds since November, when voters passed an initiative calling for a 20% cut in premiums for property and casualty coverage. But their anticipation turned to anger last week, when State Insurance Commissioner Roxani Gillespie declared that most Californians are "not going to get lower auto-insurance rates" as a result of the initiative...
...cost of ridding buildings of asbestos insulation runs about $20 per sq. ft., or 100 times as much as the cost of installing the fireproofing mineral in the days before it was known to be a potent carcinogen. One result: in as many as half of all demolition or renovation jobs involving asbestos removal, the contractors or building owners ignore the costly safety procedures that the Environmental Protection Agency has had in effect since...
...most startling result of all the action is that six players made more than $100,000 in prizes last year. Smith, for instance, who is president of the A.V.P., leads the league in endorsements. He was awarded part of a beachwear company, owns a clothing store, published an autobiography and will soon be featured in a beach-volleyball video game. Says he: "Everyone is surprised at what's gone...
...result, Americans are lacing up 200 million pairs of brand-name athletic shoes a year. Not satisfied to sell only shoes, companies are diversifying into T shirts, sweaters and shorts emblazoned with their names. All told, the market for athletic shoes will reach $9 billion in retail sales this year, up about 15% from 1988. In a grueling race for market share, once sagging Nike is racing back with revenues of $1.7 billion for the fiscal year that ended in May. Analysts estimate that Nike now claims a 26% share of the market for brand-name athletic shoes. Based...
...angelfish. The Australian hairy-nosed wombat stays in its cave, and the South American smoky jungle frog hunkers down beneath a leaf, all tantalizingly hidden from the prying eyes of the roughly 110 million Americans who go to zoos every year. Visitors often complain that as a result of all the elaborate landscaping, they cannot find the animals. But this, like almost everything else that goes wrong these days, is a signal that America's zoos are doing something very right...