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...insurers. Before the storms hit, the industry had been embroiled in a long and painful price war. Since 1987, property-casualty premiums paid by households and businesses have dropped an average of 40%. The intense discounting, and the sluggish profits that went with it, has touched off an industrywide shake-out. State Farm, the nation's largest property-casualty insurer, has racked up underwriting losses of $7.2 billion in the past four years, due largely to price competition and rising claims. In response to softening profitability, Aetna Life & Casualty will pare 4,800 jobs from its payroll by 1994, including...
...very least, I thought he might shake up the system in this election. I was willing to give him some serious consideration come November. But his wimpy July exit from the race squelched my sentiment faster than a tractor wheel could squash a cow pattie...
...this environment, Republicans resembled a drowning man willing to grasp even the sharp blade of a sword. "I'll be thrilled if Perot gets back in," says a Bush adviser. "We're losing this contest, and we need something dramatic to shake things up." Because Clinton is so far ahead in the two most populous states, New York and California, a few hopeful G.O.P. analysts were whispering about the possibility of Bush's carrying enough smaller states narrowly to gain an electoral-college majority while Clinton won the popular vote...
There are still many games to go in this match. Maybe Fischer will astonish us again. Maybe he will shake off the years and, magically, become great again, young again. But if he continues on this trajectory of mediocrity, he will have addressed a warning to all the gods living and dead: Never come back...
...official committee worked on these remaining texts at a painfully slow pace while granting others severely limited access. By the late 1980s, scholarly temperatures reached the boiling point. One recent book claims Roman Catholic priests beholden to the Vatican conspired to cover up the texts lest they shake the doctrinal foundations of the mother church. The true reasons are more mundane: too few scholars monopolizing too much material, team members' personal problems, shortage of money, political and academic intrigue and plain incompetence...