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...firms, the first between major mutual life insurance companies. In a mutual life insurance firm the policyholders are the owners. If the merger is completed, a process both companies admit may take more than a year to accomplish, it would create a $10 billion enterprise that would rank as the nation's 25th largest insurer. "It's very hard, in this type of climate when economic realities are changing very quickly, not to talk about ways to strengthen your company," says a spokesman for Phoenix Mutual. Both insurers have about a third of their assets tied up in real estate...
...them. Party hard-liners have been defeated in almost every major election that has been held during the past two years. While communist rule goes unchallenged in the conservative Central Asian republics, the party is virtually a marginal opposition group in Georgia, Armenia and the Baltic republics. Rank-and-file members across the country are deserting the fold in droves. Some 4 million have left the party during the past 18 months, reducing total membership to 15 million...
Watchdog publications allow hobbyists and rank amateurs an opportunity to get their digs in at well-paid professionals. These periodicals bristle with jeremiads by professors from obscure universities, by authors whose books have been published by Asklepios/Pagan Press, and by unheralded theorists such as the project director of Redstockings Women's Liberation Archives for Action, whatever that...
...Where do you rank Johnson historically...
...caution" for priests who face the issue. The views flew in the face of Vatican pronouncements made a year earlier, and the doctrine committee of the U.S. bishops later issued an unusual attack on the study. But since the mid-1970s, National Opinion Research Center polls have shown that rank-and-file U.S. Catholics are consistently more liberal than Protestants on the issue of premarital sex. The latest finding: 84% of Catholics do not always find it wrong, vs. 69% of Protestants...