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...most of its life, Transit specialized in insuring municipal bus lines, cab fleets and reasonably predictable things like that. It made money. But in the late 1970s, the same winds that were beginning to upend the boring old savings industry -- high inflation and high interest rates -- were blowing across the insurance fields as well. As interest rates rose, insurers began competing ruinously for customer premiums to invest at those high rates, especially in the lines of insurance that had "long tails" -- decades, often, between collecting premiums and paying claims...
...Bull Durham, Crash says, more or less, "Never mess with a winning streak." Costner is too restless to take that advice. If moviegoers are embracing him only as a sanctified jock, maybe they should brace themselves for Revenge, scheduled for release early next year. This violent drama may upend -- or just end -- Costner's current image as a Goody Two-Cleats. "Revenge is shocking, vulgar, a bit of a fall from grace," Costner says. "But I have no problem playing a man who isn't likable, as long as I understand him. Revenge is strong medicine; you won't come...
...Democrats and Republicans pushed through a thick package of legislation that would trim the state's tangled bureaucracy, reorganize its disastrous finances and launch an ambitious program of educational reform. The measures were ramrodded into law by rookie Democratic Governor Gaston Caperton, 49, a man who is determined to upend the state's feckless political tradition and sell mountaineers something they haven't had in decades: hope...
...Providence-Northern Michigan series was the only one to go to the full three games, with the Friars (the fifth seed in the East) recovering from a game-one loss to upend N. Michigan (West #4) on Saturday and Sunday nights and earn a ticket to Orono, Me. for a quarterfinal series against the Black Bears...
...thought that if we got up early that we could upend them," Lind said...