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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...award-winning sports section and provocative cultural writing make the paper a fun read. Amid reams of conservative commentary, it delivers scoops on such diverse matters as sewage-plant woes and Redskin-ticket scams. The paper covers the city's black community in greater depth than the Post. Still, while Ronald Reagan doted on the Times's conservatism, George Bush merely includes it among the six papers he reads each morning. And nothing yet convinces Post managing editor Leonard Downie Jr. that the Times poses a threat. Says he: "They appear to print a lot of things that we didn...
...colossal traffic jams that planners feared never developed. Tons of rubble from collapsed walls and shattered windows had been hauled off by a fleet of dump trucks that came from as far away as Palo Alto (35 miles). Virtually all San Francisco streets were open, though yellow tape still closed off hundreds of sidewalks adjacent to cracked buildings that might yet collapse. The World Series resumed Friday night at Candlestick Park, and even the tourist business showed signs of revival. To prepare for a meeting of 5,000 plastic surgeons, the Moscone Convention Center was forced last week to evict...
...quake was far and away the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history in terms of dollars -- thankfully, not lives. The confirmed death toll reached 64, and seems very nearly complete. Only six people are still listed as missing; probably only one or two bodies, if any, remain to be dug out of the mangled cars on I-880. More than 3,000 people were injured and 14,000 made homeless. Estimates of property damage, however, are rising rapidly. The unofficial tally hit $7.2 billion last week, and is expected to top out somewhere between $10 billion and $12 billion -- enough...
...house.) Jack Byrne, chairman of Fireman's Fund, figures that insurers will eventually shell out $2.5 billion to repair earthquake damage. They stand to recover perhaps two-thirds of that from international reinsurers -- Lloyd's of London is the biggest -- which protect insurers against catastrophic losses. Still, the earthquake claims, coming less than a month after the devastation caused by Hurricane Hugo, could set off a chain reaction. Reinsurers might become reluctant to continue backstopping American insurers, which in turn would write fewer policies and raise premiums -- and not just on earthquake insurance...
...another, and at whatever cost, the earthquake damage will be repaired. The bigger question is whether the Bay Area's prosperity will be affected over the long term. Though the region's economy is still growing, at least since 1983 it has fallen behind that of the Los Angeles area, and the Bay Area has lost relative importance as a financial, insurance and manufacturing center. It is too early to tell whether the earthquake will affect that trend, especially since the Los Angeles area is equally, if not more, vulnerable to the fearsome...