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...withstand the financial exposure, the Jaffray suit says, Lloyd's launched its biggest recruitment drive ever. Veddy British recruiters fanned out across the U.S., enlisting the aid of big brokers like E.F. Hutton (now part of Citigroup) to line up prospects. The number of Names soared from about 6,000 in the mid-1960s to 14,000 in 1978 and exceeded 34,000 by the late 1980s. These were discount Names too, Lloyd's having lowered the net worth needed to become a Name to substantially below $1 million. The lower bar gave entry to investors such as Shirley Cook...
...beat by a stronger, more determined team," Mazzoleni said. "As things start to unravel, we unravel. We don't withstand adversity well...
...Dakota Indians' "Moon of Cold-Exploding Trees" - there came banging down the worst storm in frontier history: "Children wandering out of doors froze to death within minutes... Women in isolated ranches went mad; men shot themselves and each other. Many cattle exposed on the prairie were too weak to withstand the gale: They simply blew over and died. Others kept their footing, until their hoofs were locked in ice, and they froze like so many statues...
mobile than a human, the Semi-Conductor can withstand more force...
...that Harvard is prepared to take on the millennium, Eagan and Bradner say that they feel secure in the knowledge that the University's computer-operated systems could withstand likely natural disasters--blizzard, storms, power outages, for example...