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...damages, including $7 billion in 1989 after Hurricane Hugo and the San Francisco earthquake. So far this year, insured losses have totaled a record $13 billion. The toll from Hurricane Andrew alone has already exceeded $9 billion. So who would want to buy into an insurance company? Try Sanford Weill, chairman of Primerica, the New York City concern best known for its Smith Barney brokerage subsidiary. Weill agreed to invest $550 million for a 27% stake in Travelers...
...Only 33.2% of U.S. 18-to-21-year-olds voted in the last presidential election. That dismal turnout continued a steady decline since 1971, when the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age to 18. In that year 48.3% of the eligible young cast a ballot. Says Sanford D. Horwitt, director of the Citizen Participation Project for People for the American Way: "It's as though someone has done a very successful 'Just Say No to Politics' campaign...
...This sort of thing happens all the time," saidVisiting Professor of law Sanford V. Levinson, whois also a fellow in ethics. "I don't think this isthe kind of situation that raises seriousquestions about conflict of interest...
...Sanford S. Friedman...
...about finding special merchandising niches not occupied by Wal- Mart, about improving service, extending store hours. Within the growing network of frightened storekeepers, the town of Viroqua, Wis., is held high as the David that successfully fought Goliath with community promotion, searches for new businesses and government help. In Sanford, N.C., Richard Lawrence took Stone's counsel and began to cruise the Wal-Mart that opened in January, comparing prices and merchandise in his store, Mann's Hardware, a town fixture since 1927. He became more competitive in gifts, paint and hardware and reopened an industrial-supply line. "We felt...