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...based insurers, Northwestern Mutual and MassMutual, also question the study's data. The NEJM letter places Milwaukee-based Northwestern's tobacco-stock holdings at $235 million in Reynolds, Philip Morris and Lorillard, which produces Newport cigarettes. But spokeswoman Jean Towell says the insurer's investments are actually one-tenth that figure, less than $24 million...
...Punjab to maintain peace," he said. The situation has spun out of control before. In May 2007, a prominent sect leader with significant political links, Gurmeet Ram Raheem Singh of Dera Sacha Sauda, had invited the ire of the Sikh masses when he addressed a congregation dressed as the tenth Sikh Guru, Gobind Singh, which is against Sikh tenets. Ram Raheem Singh's support base is primarily among the lower castes. At least one person was killed and over a hundred injured in the six days of violence that followed...
...payment tracking software useless. The banks that bought it will have to write it off. They also have to face the prospect that people who are poor credit risks can run up tremendous sums on their cards, expose the lender to greater risk, and not have to pay a tenth of a percent in extra interest because they are increasingly likely to default. Congress uses perverse mathematics that no one else has to make certain that banks will write down more money on credit card losses. This gives the government the opportunity to lend the banks more...
...personal record in the event. “That just shows how versatile Claire is,” Christensen said. “Claire can run anything.” Freshman Nico Weiler continued his dominance in the pole vault, running away with the win by a tenth of a meter by clearing the 5.15-meter bar. “Nico’s really a competitor,” Saretsky said. “He’s got a great perspective of what this meet means. The conditions weren’t ideal, but he got after...
...Westbrook is the tenth in her family to attend Harvard, but first to pursue a modeling career. After being approached by a booking editor from Seventeen magazine to attend an modeling open call, she began shooting spreads for Seventeen Magazine the summer after her senior year in high school...