Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even before the storm that trampled through the East Coast of the U.S. last week, the 15th such tempest in the nastiest winter in recent memory, American insurance companies had forlornly concluded that all their carefully calculated predictions about the world's weather have been blown way off course. Aetna Life and Casualty announced last Monday that first-quarter earnings would plunge $120 million -- in part because of claims related to January and February's weather. Industrywide, weather-related claims for these two months may total $825 million, on top of $1.75 billion in insured losses caused by the monstrous...
Insurers have already had an impact on the debate about climate change through their actions in the marketplace. Soaring premiums and insurance cancellations alert residents of coastal areas that changes in weather patterns can have profound economic consequences. With 50% of the U.S. population living within 50 miles of a coastline, ordinary people may also begin to draw a similar connection between climate change and their own well- being, should the windstorms continue...
Those who log on are invited to chat about everything from cutting edge CD players and advanced digital phones to the weather in the Bahamas. An average of 25 people have attended the first two meetings...
Mark Roth '96 feels that the weather call to his heritage. "It makes me feel Nordic," says the half-Finnish Roth...
...thought and thought and couldn't quite come up with an appropriate and entertaining topic for the tenth of March. It's a limbo period--with winter pretty much over and spring not quite yet here (not to mention midterms)--so, with our usual penchant for apt weather comparisons, we thought of the ever-fascinating topic of spying. (And gossip, which is Harvard's equivalent of this noble institution, but that comes later...