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...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...
...recreation." As a young representative of a conservative Tennessee district, Gore opposed putting serial numbers on guns so they could be traced, and voted to cut the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms budget by $4.2 million so that it could not carry out regulations that had unleashed a torrent of 300,000 letters from gun owners...
...bookstores nationwide. Published by St. Martin's Press, Let's Go: Europe has grown to a glossy 992-page behemoth. Hundreds of applications for summer jobs pour in each spring, as Harvard's would-be Tom Ripleys plan summers of bliss on the Continent. But casual dress and a torrent of daiquiris give way to grueling work, internal struggles, marijuana brownies, la cucuracha! and the Let's Go libido. So the staffers tell FM. Despite the tangles that come from the dubious mixing of business with undergraduate pleasure, Let's Go writers and editors for the most part praise...
...Following the New Hampshire primary, the candidates will have five weeks to gear up for the March 7 14-state torrent. According to Pooley, that's plenty of time for a campaign to regroup from a poor showing in Iowa and/or New Hampshire. But, he says, due to the condensed schedule, after New Hampshire campaigns are now faced with "some tough decisions" about where to allocate their time and money, whereas candidates used to have time to campaign in most states. Democratic hopeful Bill Bradley, for example, is trailing Al Gore in most parts of the country. During the primary...