Word: valdez
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...came up with a policy and calculated the appropriate premium. But disasters have a way of defying the laws of probability. Recent years have witnessed an extraordinary string: the Piper Alpha oil-rig blowout in the North Sea, the explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland, the Exxon Valdez oil spill and America's Hurricane Hugo. Last week Lloyd's announced that it would post a $980 million deficit for 1988 -- the most recent year on which books can be closed, since they are kept open for three years to allow for claims to be filed. And worse...
...abandoned the child in his unlocked apartment without so much as a bottle of water. Emaciated, filthy, desperate, the infant had apparently hoisted himself out of the crib and tumbled onto the wood floor before finally dying of starvation and dehydration. Both parents -- Jane Scott, 28, and Jose Valdez, 26 -- have been charged with manslaughter...
When the President's photographer David Valdez recounted the incident on ABC's Good Morning America, TIME's graphics director Nigel Holmes had reason to be pleased. Early in the war a commercial map company had proposed to TIME and other publications that they purchase reprint rights to the firm's maps of the area. Managing editor Henry Muller preferred to rely on our in-house team led by Holmes, whose wizardry with graphics has graced the pages of TIME since he came to the magazine in 1978 from London...
...mammoth slick that oozed out of the Exxon Valdez tanker into Alaska's Prince William Sound two years ago may have been tough on otters and seagulls, but it was black gold for the legal profession. The 1989 disaster generated more than 300 lawsuits. Last week the largest was settled barely a month before it was due to go to trial, as Exxon reached an agreement with Alaska and the U.S. The cost: a guilty plea to three criminal charges that the company negligently discharged crude oil into navigable waters and killed migratory wildlife, and fines that may eventually total...
Sometimes it's hard to believe Metzenbaum was a businessman before becoming a Senator. The quarter's profit increases looked so dramatic because the corresponding period in 1989 was the industry's worst in a decade. Disregard its Valdez-size write-offs of 1989, and the industry's total profits rose only 11% in 1990. That still didn't make them especially high. They represented just a 13.5% return on the shareholders' equity, far lower than in such businesses as cosmetics (30.5%), pharmaceuticals (29.5%) and restaurants (19%). "No one is accusing the cosmetics industry of making obscene profits," says William...