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Lloyd's may yet be forced to abandon its unique principle of unlimited liability. That would immediately attract companies as investors, since firms are prohibited from investing in anything where liability is not defined. A Lloyd's task force is preparing a year-end report that will address this subject. The committee may conclude that unlimited liability is akin to a black hole -- something that no underwriter, not even one from Lloyd's, can contemplate covering...
...race -- it expects to introduce its new OS/2 by year-end -- but that doesn't mean it will prevail. Microsoft is attracting a dedicated following to its successful Windows software, which lets users juggle a variety of programs at once. While Windows is not as muscular as OS/2, Gates sees it as a bridge leading customers from DOS to OS/2 in a smooth transition. He thinks that is important: "Switching overnight to OS/2 is too great a leap," he says...
...recent year-end issue, The Economist published an article titled "Modern English Debased," citing examples of incomprehensible jargon used in worlds of government, air travel, religion and, of course, academia...
...speeds and terriers? Because, argued the National Rifle Association in a suit to throw out a 1989 California law that, in effect, banned possession of unregistered assault guns, the U.S. Constitution guarantees every citizen an unrestricted right to bear arms. California gun owners seem to agree. As a year-end deadline passed, only 18,000 of perhaps 200,000 such weapons had been registered...
...end of the year has become the traditional time of listmaking. (First Forgettable List of the Year: New Year's resolutions.) Lists may express people's instinct for order and compulsion to sum things up, but year-end lists also signify the American obsession with who's numero...