Word: summer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...yesterday, deans and singers assembled to inaugurate a new Holden Chapel. Over the summer, dingy linoleum floors were replaced with wood, and walls cluttered with choral memorabilia were cleaned and covered with acoustical paneling...
Construction hit only one remarkable snag this summer. After human bones were uncovered beneath the chapel, the project was stalled for five weeks...
...keep up with the demands of their customers. Personify, founded in San Francisco in 1996, builds software that lets an e-marketer keep track of visitors to its website, what pages they look at, and how long they take to pick out something or go elsewhere. By last summer it had signed up 50 clients that were paying Personify about $6.2 million--and demanding more and different kinds of services than the company's 60 employees could supply. CEO Eileen Gittins decided the best way to get additional talented and experienced workers fast was to buy another company--a motivation...
Unfortunately, viaticals have attracted con artists the way blood does leeches, and regulators are contemplating halting, or at least restricting, the practice. The problem is with folks like Davis, indicted on fraud and other charges by a Dallas County grand jury last summer. He persuaded scores of unsuspecting Texans to shell out millions on supposedly low-risk, guaranteed investments in viaticals offered by his Dallas-based company, First American Fidelity Corp. But authorities say the policies were fraudulently obtained for the express purpose of reselling them, an increasingly common practice dubbed cleansheeting. Davis allegedly solicited HIV-positive...
There will be, if regulators and prosecutors in states from Florida to California get their way. Late last summer a federal grand jury in Florida indicted Frederick Brandau and his company, Financial Federated Title & Trust, for allegedly defrauding thousands of viatical investors across the country in an elaborate, $115 million Ponzi scheme. Brandau's attorney denies the allegations. Just a month ago, two officers of Justus Viatical, a Pompano Beach, Fla., firm, were charged with selling investors $2 million worth of fraudulently obtained life-insurance policies. Their lawyer calls the indictment a farce. And insurance heavyweights like American General...