Word: solvently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Demographers call them the new old. Healthy, vigorous and solvent, they confute the view that old age, as William Butler Yeats put it, is nothing but a tattered coat upon a stick. The 26% of the population over 50 controls three-quarters of the nation's financial assets and, with $130 billion in discretionary income, half of its spending power. "Today's elderly, especially the young elderly under 70, are a marketer's dream," says Alma Triner of Arthur D. Little Inc., a consulting firm based in Cambridge, Mass...
...malpractice-policy rates that totaled 52% and promised the similar largesse to other insurers as soon as they applied. Conceding that the increase was "ridiculous," New York's insurance superintendent, James Corcoran, explained that in approving it, he was simply making insurance rates high enough to keep insurers solvent...
...over the course of two years. The $1.7 billion property-tax rebate that it proposes would go to perhaps 40% of California's households, leaving out renters and people who have bought homes since 1978. Businesses might some day also have to pay higher taxes to keep California solvent if Proposition 36 crimps other revenue sources. Standard & Poor's has shaken up investors by placing many of California's bonds on its "credit watch" list. Land developers, corporations, investment banks and labor unions are expected to spend $2 million to fight the proposal. Says John Hay, president...
...method proved a lifesaver to brothers Jamie and Glen Selby of Caspar, Wyo., who were burned after they playfully painted their bodies, tried to remove the paint with a solvent, and then came into contact with a flame...
...method proved a lifesaver to brothers Jamie and Glen Selby of Caspar, Wyo., who were burned after they playfully painted their bodies, tried to remove the paint with a solvent, and then came into contact with a flame...