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...word in financial circles, albeit sotto voce in recent months, has been to watch out for the insurance industry as the next to be sucked into the vortex of the nation's sagging real estate values. Though the number of outright collapses so far this year remains relatively small, the industry failure rate has picked up ominously in recent weeks and now involves one of the nation's largest insurers. Two weeks ago, in what was the biggest failure to date, New Jersey state authorities took over Mutual Benefit Life, the country's 18th largest life insurer, with assets...
...wind stream called the polar vortex keeps the polar air from mixing with warmer air over the midlatitudes, the article says...
...were looking for a party last weekend, you weren't on campus. As is tradition for the Head of the Charles weekend, the Square was for two days a vortex of recreations. Diversions from Chaucer readings, French conjugations and even sleeping--what was a diligent student...
North, the former National Security Council aide at the center of the Iran-Contra vortex, sat stone-faced at the defense table as prosecutor Keker methodically tried to dismantle his American-hero image...
...start, the man believed responsible for the unprecedentedly successful--and costly--rogue program is Robert T. Morris, Jr., '83-'85, a Dunster House alumnus and Cornell graduate student. Morris, who is affectionately known as "RTM" by his friends at Aiken Computation Laboratories, immediately drew Harvard into the virus vortex by calling Aiken's Andrew H. Sudduth '83-'85 and computer science graduate student Paul Graham the night the renegade program began to spread...