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Executives of other leasing companies were soon rushing to London to buy the new policy. San Francisco-based Itel became the biggest user, taking out 48% of all the computer policies that Lloyd's underwriters issued. The leasing companies owned by Citicorp, Chase Manhattan and Bank of America, among many other big firms, got similiar policies. In all, the 57 Lloyd's underwriting syndicates and 17 individual insurance companies that were involved in the deal wrote more than 14,000 policies covering potential claims of more than $ 1 billion...
...have long prized small size. In contrast to the U.S., where the beer business is increasingly being taken over by a few large firms, led by Anheuser-Busch and Miller, the German industry is made up of many small breweries, some of which serve only a few Wirtshäuser (pubs) in their area. The largest German firm, Dortmunder Union-Schultheiss, accounts for only 10% of the country's production...
Skip the Ritz. Bypass London, Paris, Rome, Madrid, Munich, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Athens. Head for the byways. Seek out country inns, auberges, Gasthãuser, bedsitters, farms, pensions, pousadas and paradores. This is the year of the offbeat, off-beaten-track European vacation...
...policy, which awaits Faculty Council and University approval, allows for official University boycotts in some cases, and sets up guidelines for individual user boycotts...
Once mastered, the computer phones can perform a variety of functions at the touch of a button or two. These jobs include: transferring a call to another extension, automatically placing a call at a set time, notifying the user when a previously dialed busy line becomes free, intercepting calls going to another extension, programming the phone so that frequently called numbers can be stored and then activated by using a three-digit number, and automatically redialing a previous call to the outside...