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...These clubs share at least one documentable feature in common—the era of their founding. Somerset was founded in 1851. The Union in 1863. Beginning in the 1880s, America’s most English city saw the unleashing of a torrent of clubs: The St. Botolph, Tavern, Algonquin, Puritan, University, Odd Volumes, India Wharf Rats, Country Club (Brookline), Myopia Hunt Club (Hamilton), Dedham Polo, Boston Athletic (BAA), City Club Corporation, Nahant, Mayflower (women) and Essex County. Many are now defunct. These clubs flourished only partly due to the town’s scarcity of fine restaurants. Up until...
Other law school students responded immediately in a torrent of forwarded e-mails...
...have happened. Many parents would have instinctively tried to pull the wooden stiletto from Nathan's chest. But Lorri Earley, a trained nurse, saw the pencil throbbing rhythmically in her son's chest and knew where it had probably lodged. She knew that pulling it out could unleash a torrent of red that would bleed the boy dry in a matter of minutes. "There was no way we'd touch it," she told TIME...
...appeals court held the companies liable. The lawyers did the rest, opening the floodgates to damage claims that would eventually bring down huge asbestos companies like Johns Manville Corp., which restructured itself after a trip through bankruptcy court. The insurer of last resort--the party most exposed to the torrent of claims--was Lloyd's of London...
...only way out, according to Courtis, may well be for the Bank of Japan to print more money. That approach to dealing with the debt load, he said, would cause a torrent of wealth to leave Japan and push international stock markets higher (or at least put a floor under their decline). But it would also mean a lower yen and thus more attractive Japanese exports. Though other economies might be leery of that, Courtis suggested they should prefer a low yen to a deeply indebted Japan. "You can't have it both ways," he said...