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Mark Klender had been “on the job only eight days, when he went to the office of governor and the bomb dropped.

Klender, whose consultancy firm was commissioned to monitor the state to convince Boeing to build 7E7 is not yet completed Dir Gary Locke, so far. But he had the right to development:

Washington has only had a 1-in-5 chance of winning the 7E7 games Klender said.

In the state’s legal structure and tax Klender and his team of Deloitte & Touche Boeing estimated cost of building the 7E7 that 25 per cent higher than in the Washington area business-friendly states like Texas and Alabama , Has promised to monitor the aggressiveness 7E7.

Washington should offer billions of dollars for the promotion, only in the ballpark.

It was on May 28, Boeing and the deadline for submission of proposals was launched less than a month.

“I said, ‘Gulp,” says Locke.

Well, because competition for the construction of Boeing Next-Generation project is finished, it remains Boeing mother in the details. But Locke and other officials in Washington and competitive United last week, spoke publicly about the eight-month battle for the 7E7.

Locke said he knew immediately on Thursday was higher than the 800 jobs in 1200 Boeing was much more promising for the plant.

“I fully believe that if the 7E7 built in another state, this would be the end of Boeing’s commercial aircraft production in Washington state,” Locke said. “For me it was more and more of this type of deployment.”

The State had no other choice but to find money, “he concluded.

2 days before deadline

Two weeks later, after a plethora of surprising Crunching Numbers, Hard-ball and political lobbying, the legislature adopted a previous $ 3.2 billion, 20-year tax benefits for the aviation industry and space industry, which is in force only if the 7E7 built here. Locke signed into law on June 18 - two days before the deadline for the 7E7 proposals.

The legislation has a long way to go for the 7E7 in Washington. Would it not so, new Boeing planes would likely be next on the path to another country today.

Chief Executive Harry Stonecipher announced Tuesday that Boeing’s Board of Directors had authorized the sale of aircraft unit begin offering customers the 7E7. The Committee also 7E7 team’s recommendation to build the aircraft in Everett, where all planes of Boeing jumbo jets are assembled today.

The decisions culminated a hard eight-month campaign by the state to keep their largest private employer and most permanent Corporate symbol.

Boeing has a schizophrenic approach their business, the version of “Survivor.”

It reveals the competition in a newspaper story and sent their criteria and the identity of its site selection consultants, McCallum Sweeney of Greenville, SC, on its website, probably a wider resonance.

Boeing has refused and then another word about research and severely warned officials 7E7, or to keep confidential information endangering their proposals accordingly.

If the competition was on March 29 be published, some in the state legislature thought Boeing had simply wanted to Washington.

“Many people have raised their hands and said there is nothing that we can do,” said Fred State Czech Jarrett, R-Mercer Island, a worker of 30 years, Boeing, served in the Committee bipartie tight that the legislative package 7E7.

On 23 April, Boeing Commercial Airplanes chief Alan Mulally, visited Olympia against this impression.

Arriving late in the day, he met with loop first on the major climatic events of topics, including Boeing, not only taxes on pollution, but also changes in unemployment insurance and Workers’ Compensation rules.

Then he had four separate meetings, each with a House of Representatives and the Senate Caucasus.

“The purpose of this meeting (with legislators),” Jarrett recalls, “was that the deck is not stacked against Washington, there is fair competition”.

Unlike some legislators, Martha Choe, director of the State Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development, it is not now.

Two years ago, after the relocation of Boeing headquarters in Chicago shook the region, Choe had the mandate, leaders of the State address to Boeing. At that time, the company was still taking into account the ultra-Sonic Cruiser and the lack of promises, where he built.

Choe, he was responsible, store here. If the Sonic Cruiser was abandoned in favor of the 7E7 a year ago, Choe in this role. Immediately after the 7E7 competition was opened, it has begun testing sites and selection of permanent advisers Deloitte.

All social programs as large and complex as President Clinton on the health plan to have different effects on a country as large and complex as the USA. For all its specificities, the plan has been States try to figure if it would be a winner or loser.

Take Texas, the state with the largest share of workers (25.3 percent), have no health insurance. In all employers to pay for health insurance, the plan would hit Texas particularly challenging. But this mandate should mean improved health care for 3.8 million Texans unversichert.

The pain that the State feels in balance, at least in part, by its disproportionately large share of more than $ 80 billion in annual subsidies, M. Clinton has promised, small, low wage levels of employers and low-income Americans. Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Arkansas are in the same situation, with a high proportion of uninsured workers, but low wages, that many grants.

Compare with the states of Connecticut, which has the lowest percentage (8.8 percent) of workers is not ensured. Accordingly, the employer would mandate minimum damage to Connecticut. But as the level of wages, the State of Connecticut is expected to receive little of how the grants. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan have the same samples.

Some economists believe that the plan would funnel tens of billions of dollars by high wages in the North-South at low wages by the year 2000. Members of Congress from the Middle East and North-West have even asked for a meeting with Hillary Rodham Clinton about the case.

“We are concerned about the effects of redistributional,” said Paula Duggan, Senior Policy Analyst at North East-Midwest Institute, the research goes for members of Congress from both regions. “We are concerned that these subsidies benefit at the expense of the South, North-West and the Middle East.”

But administration officials deny that the health, redistribution of wealth from north to south, to stress specifically that only the money from the cigarette tax and health care savings for payment subsidies.

Middle west of the USA should not cry too, say the officials, because Mr. Clinton threw several embassies his path. Focuses heavy industry in these countries, including automobile, steel and rubber, companies have grumbled non-stop on medical costs gobbling to 12, 15 or even 20 per cent of their salary list. These sectors are expected to benefit most affected by the proposal to limit to 7.9 per cent of the arrivals of an employer who pays the list of health insurance. The industrial Midwest should also take the President to accept the proposal, Washington, most companies have borne by insurance early retirement.

Given that, for the north-east, administration officials say, New York and New Jersey would also be a number of grants because states have a high level of medical costs and many low wage workers and families in social spending.

California has other worries. It has the highest unemployment rate (30.6 percent) for participation in organizations of health care. This means that if Mr. Clinton pushes plan doctors and hospitals to begin a minuet frantic to find partners and form networks, California would not be subject to the same degree of upheaval, as some other countries. Similarly, Californians are as a general rule, Managed Care, opinion, they fall into the eyes a social experience. Minnesota, Oregon, Massachusetts are in the same position, with strong participation in HMO’s.

But given that these countries are already far in the piracy of health care inflation, the Clinton plan can not provided their assistance in controlling costs.

At the other end of the spectrum, Montana and North Dakota, where only 1 percent of the population belongs to HMO’s. Almost nobody expects that too easy for these states are networks, physicians small towns dozens of kilometers apart.

“Managed Care is an entirely new way of life in a state like North Dakota,” said Stephen Raetzman, health care, an expert at Towers Perrin, a consulting firm. “It is another process quite normal fee for the service of medicine.

Although the concern on his face said otherwise, Elizabeth Casey tries to remain optimistic because she said Renee Evans, State Farm representative here on the damage Hurricane Katrina caused to her house in nearby Pass Christian.

Yes, half the roof flew off her 115-year-old house to the rafters with it, and yes, the rain that poured in destroyed furniture, floors and the house of the water pump. All that remains of the family of 32-foot sailboat, a vacuum is a bowline. With a laugh, Mrs. Casey said the boat was renamed Toll.

Stuff est’’stuff,’’said Casey, a social worker and mother of three children who rode the storm at home with nine relatives. ”We are very pleased with the rest of the family, they have lost everything.”

After listening to Ms. Casey describe the damage for 10 minutes at State Farm’s Mobile Easy disaster, Ms. Evans wrote her a $ 500 check for gas, food and other immediate needs. She said Mrs. Casey to order a tin roof to replace the canvas she has put in place, call an antique dealer to evaluate the damage to the old furniture and fight against mold with Clorox. And it Ms. Casey gave a claim number and told him to expect a call for an expert, who would visit the house as soon as he could.

Like thousands of homeowners in the region, Ms. Casey is about to enter a long, cumbersome process to determine what caused the damage and who should pay.

It will not be easy. The volume of insurance claims means that it could take months before police get the money needed to rebuild their homes or move elsewhere.

As of Wednesday, State Farm, the largest residential insurer in the region, had received more than 62000-Hurricane Katrina claims by homeowners in Mississippi and Alabama, and 16000 applications for automobiles.

This problem is compounded by the complexity of the storm-related claims. Hurricanes are a combination of wind and water. Most private owners’ compensation policies for wind damage. But if the damage is the result of flooding, coverage would be available if the owner had separate flood insurance purchased from a program or a private insurer . Many residents who suffered severe hurricane damage did not have flood insurance, so sorting on damages in such cases, be sure to be complicated.

Meanwhile, tens of thousands of claims are still continuing as policyholders to return to their homes as communities devastated Pass Christian.

The busiest and most sophisticated processing center in Mississippi is the ease Mobile disaster, a 53-foot trailer parked at Hood Discount Home Center here on Highway 49 South. Inside, a half-dozen employees work on banks of computers to process paperwork and coordinate the flow of water, fuel and food for hurricane victims.

Outside, two tents times that of the trailer are filled with rows of folding chairs and tables. About 15 officers sitting on each side with laptops and wireless Internet connections that make it possible to confirm the terms of a customer’s policy and collect information on damage to homes and cars.

At their tables from 7 am to 7 hours (a curfew is in effect here), claims representatives have heard hundreds of victims recount lives and houses turned upside down.

Diane Sheehan and her sister, Charlotte Manis, arrived with a Sony digital camera and photos they had printed of their damaged roof and chain-link fence. Shaken but cheerful, the sisters joked about 20 pounds of Italian beef that had been bad and their fear of using their Weber cooker because of potential gas leaks.

Others have spoken of the enormous task of rebuilding from scratch. Ms. Evans, 30-year State Farm veteran from Birmingham, Ala., said a client without showed both its portfolio to say his house and everything that went.

The day after Hurricane Katrina struck, Elvis Gates Jr., an officer in neighbouring Long Beach, sat outside his office on East Street railroad in a lawn chair so that some its customers around 1500 could find him.

Schwindender credit markets switch to a new dangerous phase, and everybody trying to municipalities, sanitation fixed network for people with a car loan is to pay the price.

Thursday, Alabama populous Landkreis teetered on the fringes of what could be the nation’s largest municipal bankruptcy.

A couple of major importance for financial companies have indicated that they receive notice of default by banks nervous ready to seek payments. Tourbillonné reports that the largest bank in Europe unloaded $ 24 billion opaque mortgage securities in a fire sale.

Who on the front - a Bond dealer for investment Manager - say the latest batch of bad news shows a shocking new era in the credit crunch could send a shock wave to the economy.

“We are in the historic centre of region scarier than hell,” said TJ Marta, an analyst who monitors the Fixed Income markets at RBC Capital Markets. “I have heard many people say that the market is now broken forever.”

The problems are jumping on several fronts, and all have different effects.

The $ 2.6 trillion industry municipal borrowing has not been seriously jolted from Orange County, California, government presented the largest bankruptcy in the history of USA in 1993.

Well, the industry is facing a multitude of threats, how cities and school districts money.

Alabama’s Jefferson County is considering a bankruptcy proceeding of a request to resolve the financial crisis of $ 3.2 billion through the networks debts. The Department - the financial situation of the Centre in Birmingham, as his headquarters - is in negotiations with banks to develop a solution to their liquidity crisis.

In the meantime, the assurance that cities purchased for the protection of their obligations loses its lustre.

The rating agencies to deal with an increase in defaults on debt risky loans by insurers would cost as it is not worthy of its highest audience. These assessments are important, that the obligations of insurers in the economy.

Even a plan Ambac Financial for 1.5 billion dollars of USA to get first-class can do nothing and generate new investors in order to reduce the fear.

The problem now insurance products, their value is seen as both eye on insurers, “said Richard Tortora, President of Capital Markets Advisors, the north-east to advise municipalities.

These negative perceptions could take years, he said.

It shows that credit markets are facing a new round of tightening, beating market only considered relatively safe month.

Thornburg Mortgage and a pension fund, a subsidiary of The Carlyle Group, said lenders demand more money for financial lines. The applications, the so-called margin calls is not yet fully implemented by individual companies.

Thornburg said he received a standard on the lines, so far. This has sparked cross-default like many others, said the company. Analysts fear that the collapse of strands.

Carlyle, they are also revealed received a warning and expects at least another. He did not disclose the default size, but new fears of Private Equity other companies could, in similar problems with their subsidiaries.

Five major car rental companies into a new financial responsibility on the tenant. These companies, Alamo, Avis, Budget, Hertz and National, have changed their rental contracts in different countries, the tenant of its own insurance on the first line of defence, where an accident with a claim of responsibility - c ‘ is to say that such an injury, or other persons or damage kills other property. Until recently, the liability insurance that companies arrivals are necessary for the laws of the State was the main reporting.

For drivers do not bear the liability insurance or do not want for their own policy on the line, the rental companies offer an alternative that sell under different names for an extra day for $ 8 or so. For guarantees, without coverage, not to buy the rental of Business Back-up is the front cover, but there is a possibility that the rental companies and Sue return the tenant. Rich McEvily, Hertz to a lawyer, said: “We say that the tenant:” It is up to you to protect your assets. “”

In California, Hertz, Alamo and both primary and secondary responsibility of the tenants, what makes a costume is more likely, but the situation is not really new suit was reported, not yet. The California Attorney General’s Office, after Ron riders, an assistant attorney general asked the owner, as the responsibility, if the law apparently places a burden on car owners.

This type of insurance referred to the rule of third party liability, has nothing to do with the Collision Damage Waiver, a lease, for a daily fee, absolves tenants of liability for loss or ‘damage to a rented vehicle.

The loss or damage to a rental car with a finish Free: The value of the car.

Greater responsibility for an accident may be millions of dollars, if someone complains about the lack of profit potential or a family is left without an employee.

Even before the recent changes to the rental companies have offered an “excess coverage” to provide protection on a blanket over driver in the case of an appeal, but now it seems likely more popular, especially because that many people rent cars is not unique and, therefore, no liability insurance. Faced with the new arrivals rules, these people can not rent a car ever, because their homes or other property is on the line of responsibility in the case of a costume.

The last Shifting happens very quickly. For large enterprises, but apparently started in January, when Avis and Budget, the stage in California, followed in March then, Alamo, Hertz National in April and May. In Florida, economic relocated in January, Hertz and National in May and Avis and Alamo in June.

Dear has also shifted the responsibility in Indiana and Wisconsin, and has a new contract in the work of Texas tenants.

Domestic, in 17 other states: Alabama, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Texas and Wyoming.

Alamo, 27 other states: Alabama, Alaska, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania , South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin. “Responsibility for others”

These companies say they are looking for in their contracts in all countries to see how to escape that Hertz has dramatic escalation of liability costs. ”

The housing market companies say “responsibility for others” are passing laws that the relocation of the Council’s responsibility. Eleven countries have such laws, possession of a vehicle, the owner liable for damages, regardless, was en route. In seven countries with such laws, Jan M. Armstrong, Executive Vice President of the American Association car rentals, there is no limit on the amount of damages a jury, it may, in one case, the responsibility. Of those seven, she said, Florida and New York are the manufacture of the biggest settlements, which means that the greatest loss to the company law through the charter. A jury New York last month, rose from $ 163 million, a record that the victim of an accident with a rental car.

Seven years after the Supreme Court decided that the first race could not play a role in the jury selection, the Justices agreed today to decide whether the same principle of equal protection bars the exclusion of of potential jurors on the basis of their sex do.

The court accepted a call from a man, Alabama, the defendant in the case of a civilian by the State, he had a child and was responsible for the payment for each dependent child. After imperatives of the State of its nine men challenges to exclude the group of potential jurors, a jury of 12 women have heard the evidence and, despite a refusal by the man’s father said.

The role of gender in jury selection is the big question remains unanswered a remarkable series of judgments of the Supreme Court, over a period of six years, redefined the concept of the former jury peremptory challenge. Traditionally, each page in a study was carried out free to delete a number of jurors without explanation. Principle is extended

In one case, 1986, v. Batson Kentucky, the Court held that the constitutional guarantee of equal protection to criminal prescribed by the city, black jurors from the criminal trial against a single defendant black because of their race. In the series of judgments followed, when the Court of Justice extends the principle of the Batson decision, that the two parties in a case, civil and criminal, was barred by race a criterion for jury selection.

Courts state and federal courts at the bottom, but were uncertain about the principle of Batson in the context of sex. The question often comes because there are categories of cases - rape of Tests and sex discrimination to receive, two names are, of course - where one or the other believes it is advantageous for judges on this basis.

Last month, the Maryland Court of Appeals overturned the convictions of two men in a murder case of strong public because prosecutors had a dozen urgent challenges to exclude women from the jury, apparently in the belief that women would be more understanding for young men essay. Given that the court based its decision on Maryland’s Equal Rights Amendment, rather than by the Constitution or federal law, the decision can no longer be challenged in the Supreme Court. Type cited the case

The courts have refused to Alabama, bar the use of sex in jury selection either civil or criminal cases. Twice last year, the Supreme Court refused to hear appeals of decisions concerning the problem in Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals. The Justices explain their decisions to grant or deny review, so that we do not know why the Tribunal has suddenly decided to open public discussion on appeal, it is obvious today, AF v. TB, No. 92-1239.

Sr. E. James Bowman, the complaint argued that since a paternity suit “of mines, especially women against men, in particular, there are good reasons for insuring that the jury selection in such cases is not falsified, on the basis of potential juror’s Sex.

Mr. Bowman own lawyer uses 10 imperative to exclude the challenges of 10 women of the jury. But because the number of women to men in the jury pool from the State was yet to create an all-women on the jury of their peremptory challenges against men.

Mr. Bowman’s challenge to the composition of the jury has been rejected both by the process of judges and the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals. The Alabama Supreme Court refused last year a review of cases. Magnitude model selection

Among the Federal Appellate Justice, the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, prescribed by the exclusion of potential jurors on the basis of their sex. But the fourth district, Richmond, and the seventh arrondissement, in Chicago, refused the principle of the Supreme Court decision on the Batson report of the race.

The rule of the game in the Batson case, when he was a model of race apparent in the jury selection. The lawyer of jury selection demanding, asked the judge to require that, on the other hand, explain the apparent models and not a cause of the distance of each juror.

A random, apparently random exclusion of a juror would not normally lead a judge to give what became known as Batson consultation. But the use of categorical big challenges on the basis of race, which was a big part of the law landscape.

While the Supreme Court on issues of racial discrimination to an intensification consideration as discrimination based on sex, the explanatory memorandum to the Court of Justice in the jury cases, the application of race and sex.

In Powers v. Ohio, a decision that the 1991 has shown that the defendant and jurors did not need to exclude the same courses for the exclusion is not valid, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the majority, that one of the most objectionable features was mandatory challenges racist stereotypes of thinking that jurors behave in a certain race, in a certain way. Race may not be representative of determining juror bias or competence, “Justice Kennedy said. ”

The Justices returned today to two weeks, Recess, the last stop before the end of the term late next month. This Court, among other actions today.

Rhett High eats only food and protein, and does leftovers. Each week, he visited a salon for a long soothing bath and demand that his hair facts. Fit stay, he frolics in a glass enclosed, air-conditioned, in exercising its big house in Atlanta. Other weekends, hops in the jeep and a zoom on a mountain hut in Cashiers, NC

Rhett High eats only food and protein, and does leftovers. Each week, he visited a salon for a long soothing bath and demand that his hair facts. Fit stay, he frolics in a glass enclosed, air-conditioned, in exercising its big house in Atlanta. Other weekends, hops in the jeep and a zoom on a mountain hut in Cashiers, NC five or six times a year, cavorts Does a beach house in Hilton Head, SC Not bad life. But do not think Rhett is the only dog, he so well. Never before have so many scruples doused herders with their animals luxury. Dogs and cats are spoiled reveling in the context of a life familiar to their ancestors: Premium food, expensive clothes, furniture intelligent, groomings week in the best salons and the entire medical farmers could consider twice, for their mothers.

”The urbanization of America has pets and their owners in childbirth, more than before, and so the animal’s condition has increased,’’said Dr. Michael Garvey, chairman of the department of medicine at the Animal Medical Center in New York.

”It was easier to ignore the needs of your pet, if roaming outside. If you live in a two-piece with your two cats and dogs, it is difficult to ignore their specific needs.”

”And there is a factor of debt happens,”he added. ”If I really loves Brutus, I should spend $ 12 instead of $ 2 on its food.”

Brent Collinson, 40 years, a real estate salesman, Rhett bought a Golden Retriever, injectJU Page C6 Page C6 JP PET - C12 Page C1 few followed in his life as a bachelor.

”In the 1990’s, with all the crazy things, and with more single people, you tendons, pet for a companion and friend,”he said. ”I have many friends, as I really all dote on their dogs, and everything they purchase. I want to talk about everything.”

The use of this mascot, many aspects of $ 11 billion animals of industrial products are moving in pricier bid. Feed you simply small animals can now mean big moments of fear. As you can open all the old ones?

No, if’s Nutritional efficiency of the food. Not when there is a Milk-Bone, which prevents tartar deposits. (You think, a dog loves to go to the dentist any more than you do?) No, if HiPro’s, which can produce small chairs and contribute to the sidewalks clean.

In those days, to observe the animals, what they eat, to change their lives in abundance in the same way by their owners. “They are more at home, less active (they have dog and cat to see videos) and live longer.

Premium health and animal nutrition are by far the segment growing the fastest animal feed. There are high-protein lines as IAMS and Ralston Purina Pro Plan. There are foods such as bidding stamp, large gourmet, Purina Cat Chow Plus and Fancy Feast.

With obesity increasingly expensive, there is also the regime of lines as Alpo-Lite, Round 3 Lite and FIT’N Trim.

Hill’s Pet Products Science Diet: for cats, cat food, diet and adults a lightweight formula for dogs, food for puppies, adult dogs, slow dog, dog of assets, overweight and dogs dog senior. It is also a scheme for the dog too great stress. It is eaten by dogs in military operations and police. More people to feed trekking shops and stores of animals to get foodstuffs in supermarkets are not available. IAMS, for example, was sold in specialty stores for 44 years, still have inflated its turnover of $ 10 million in 1982 to over $ 100 million last year.

”People are spending more for better food for themselves,’’said a spokesman for IAMS,”and to do the same for their pets.”

However, many doctors are animals by the fact that dogs are not necessarily low in cholesterol biscuits.

”People watch a Premium food and say it must be better: it is higher in price, it is higher in the diet,’’said Dr Garvey. ”But take a house, that beagle sleeps 20 hours a day and the other cheek like a little ball. If the dog eats high-protein nutrition, obesity, it is unbelievable. So it is not always better better.”

With a new awareness came activism for supplying the health system. The animals receive hip replacements, chemotherapy, transplant kidneys and pacemakers installed. They even submitted to acupuncture.

Healing a pet can be thousands of dollars, that is why people buy more insurance. Two companies veterinary pet insurance in Santa Ana, California, and Animal Health Insurance in Danbury, Connecticut, sold thousands of animals policies, an annual premium of about $ 100 each.

”The request is to skip breaks and limits,’’said J. Scott Henderson, president of the Animal Health Insurance. ”We are selling policies for a period of five years, but people are beginning to hear about this. You are concerned, their own health, and so they want the best care for their pets.”

If you have trouble with the cost of PET for the insurance itself, Massachusetts Company, a Boston bank, a poor consolation messages. More than 10000 veterinarians, he began by Visa, that 10 per cent discount on PET and insurance discounts on food animals and accessories. The name of your pet may be marked on the map next to you.

But even if an animal has his health, they are not necessarily all. At Hammacher Schlemmer in New York, you can aa pet car safety belt for cars racing, a heated water bed or a bed for orthopedic animals from the penalty arthritis.

Princess Limousine Inc. in Manhattan whip is your pet or to the airport groomer $ 40 per hour plus a gratuity of 20 per cent. Elaine Vaizer, owners of the princess, “she said on animals fields 10 calls a day. She fell into a specialty chemicals few years, after a friend of his own closed and animal transport business from holistic therapy for animals.

James W. Bishop Jr. not as insurance agents. Thus, he decided when he took over life insurance, it is not representative of his appeal, indeed, he never pick up the phone. Instead, he went only to her bedroom and turned on his computer.

In a few minutes on the Internet, he received the estimates of five companies, how a long-term policy would cost $ 500000. He home with his wife, thought after a few days, and then went back to his machine and ordered the insurance on the World Wide Web, the graphical interface of the Internet component.

”I did not want a night of my family life and a sales representative come to my house, Sir,’’said the bishop. ”It was a much more easily than children go to bed and watch this operation on your computer. The agent had used the same factors that I have on the Web. There is nothing magical certificates in this regard.”

Mr Bischof, 32 years, a distribution company employees in Birmingham, Ala., is the type of consumer, insurance are many leaders nervous. The rise of the Internet, she forced a radical change in the traditional way of selling insurance: face to face with an army of more than 650000 agents across the nation.

In addition, the introduction of cybersales, like some other forces also appears the ranks of agents. These include the competitive threat of banks, sell now, pensions and rising interest rates by insurers in selling policies through affinity groups such as the American Association of Retired Persons. Agents are also found that more customers are opting for the concept of insurance and non-profit cash-Value-political, but he puts himself on investment funds and other financial products to build wealth.

So far, the number of Internet Shopper is small, probably not more than a few thousand. But enough young people like Mr. Bishop, are already fairly well with the Internet as a source of information or the turnover of retail trade beginning, which itself for insurance should be considered good. Every point is that buyers of these series could quickly see the caution so that tradition requires the industry is not quite sure, to be done.

”Most insurance companies people are completely scared, because it is so different from everything they have,’’said Hussein Enan, a former insurance executive, is now selling the policy more than a half - dozen companies, including Zurich Kemper and ITT Hartford on the Internet.

But ändern’’stattfindet and it passes quickly,”Mr. Enan, Director General of Insweb Corporation in San Mateo, California, said. In an industry where the gross receipts of all types of personal premiums - health, life, retirement, injury and - approximately $ 800 billion per year, the stakes are enormous.

Thus far, most insurance on the Internet is an expression life, a reines””Versicherung provides only a death benefit and is relatively simple. Often recommended by consumer groups because it provides coverage for a relatively low price, visit life also has the advantage for many customers require little or no advice. Although not yet as popular as policy, which is also a flow of value, a concept of life has been widely advertised and sold on the phone for years.

But the Internet is now the insurance beyond relatively simple concept of life. During recent months, some companies, like Insweb, have begun offering auto and individual health insurance and those specializing in political coverage for Jet-skis. There is even one that pays in the case of development, the ruins of a marriage - in short a change of heart by the couple.

Last week, Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, one of the largest health insurance funds in the country, went on line by Insweb with a number of policy areas.

Even as some insurers have been insisting on the Internet, many executives and industry leaders see no reason to change how they. They contend that computer networks will never be ending as a small segment of the market, and they take care of injuries in the security field, if the networks are often distribution policy.

William F. Yelverton, Chief Executive of each company insurance group in the Prudential Insurance Company of America, the country’s largest life insurer, says computers fine for the collection and exchange of information. But he rejects the Internet as a vehicle for sale and did not see it coming between Prudential and its agents 12500.

”We see the agents of the nature and excellence in order to distribute life insurance, now and in the future,”he said.

And Dennis H. Chookaszian, Chairman and Chief Executive of the CNA, a large insurer of Chicago, argues that important data like credit card numbers could be intercepted and basic information could not even its destination address.

These sales on the Internet, but say that the complex coding system for the protection of the buyer and that the chances of losing material in cyberspace are remote.

There are also fears of fraud - both buyers and sellers - is replaced by the free flow of the nature of the Internet, a market difficult for the police. Daniel P. bet, founder of the Quick Quote Insurance Agency, said 5 percent of its Internet applications, a sort of disappointment, especially when the disclosure of serious health problems.

If money remains after the holidays, there is no shortage of advice on how to invest. January-The issues of personal finance magazines - with three questions at the end of the year - are charged with prognostications and lists of stocks chosen for 1997.

It is fascinating, and stocks were little more than a list. From time to time, American Express, Walt Disney or a biotechnology company appears twice, but the vast majority is not. Probably, several stock pickers are different research and analytical criteria, but the way to be forgiven for readers to suspect that experts have not the slightest idea. And a good record in this market, the increase was not simply a mission impossible.

The newspapers are all on the stubborn nervous stocks for the year 1997. Most predict a correction in the first half, followed by a rebound. Where does it end? Some analysts see the Dow beat 9000 or 10000 in the years to come. But do not forget, which has significantly different lists.

With view on the future of happiness, money and all have very special year-end is devoted to questions about the prospects for next year.

Fortune, his personal finances to cover this fall, when the store was refurbished, provides prices in European stocks. But he cautioned investors to be patient, because the pace of rationalization of business was slower than in the USA. The magazine of the five best players in Europe are chosen Volkswagen and Mannesmann in Germany, SGS-Thomson Microelectronics and Elf Aquitaine in France, and Daily Mail and General Trust of Great Britain.

The magazine appears every two weeks, including lists, which requires a lot of promising sectors for the year 1997, in collaboration with several companies in each. The sectors of the health of women, High-Speed-communication, supports the life and search for drugs.

For the money, 10 three brokerage stocks extend their potential as a winner. The magazine said its needles for the year 1996 have gained an average of 21 per cent, and it predicted a steep rise even more for its selection 1997: 39 per cent. (Because of publication deadlines for delivery of these newspapers, normally a threshold arbitrary selection point at the end of the year for calculating profits and losses. Starting from Friday, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index shares rose by 21.6 per cent for 1996.)

Michael Sivy, Money’s Chief Investment Strategist, advises investors, while the overall market is not as strong as in 1997, was in 1996, he believed, the Dow in early 9000, within five years. ”We believe that investors should each dive in share prices as a buying opportunity grandiose,”he writes. It also examines, which is spoiling the fresh perspectives.

Worth’s approach is comparable to the money in 12 investment Before each choose two preferred shares for 1997. The 1996 performance of its needles have ranged from an increase of 209 percent for Chesapeake Energy - a favorite of Daniel Leonard, manages, Strategic Technology Fund INVESCO portfolio - a decrease of 51 percent for Semtech chosen by Louis Navel Lier, publishers BPM Review.

In its regular January, Smart Money, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance and Individual Investor same post in the future.

Smart Money had a good record for 1996, if the needles were on average 36 percent. With the help of Elaine Garzarelli, look analysts, is Garzarelli Capital, the magazine has great expectations for a period of five stocks - First Choice, Nokia, Watson Pharmaceuticals, Revco and Allstate. In borrowing, it offers a 50-50 split between five years and Treasury Bonds Vanguard’s Corporate High Yield Bond Fund.

Kiplinger’s is the least gushy on the outlook for 1997, but focuses on stocks, says it should grow, what to expect, humdrum existence of a market. He predicted good rate of return of Real Estate Investment Trusts, certain actions and energy, financial services and banking shares.

A stumbling Jonathan Steinberg, editor of the individual investor software, acknowledges that his newspaper’s Magic”25”Lager recommendations for the year 1996 was a disappointment. It returns an average of 15.7 per cent and that among all the leaders of the market average and well below each investor, the target of 50 percent. The magazine devotes a large part of his edition of the January-bearer of hope for the years 1997 and provides a detailed analysis of each.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY Kiplinger’s 50 in January, and if the next half-century, just as the last, you have your seat belt buckle. While the anniversary issue aspires to its readers a glimpse in the next 50 years, excerpts from the journal of the first day, the best centre in the shooting, the pace of change that we maybe expected.

Kiplinger’s was the first modern human resources Finance Magazine and was a pioneer in the belief the average World War II - marked by reminders of the harsh global economic crisis - it is not only safe but desirable to invest in actions. In the first issue was on sale in 1947, the average American Made $ 2589 per year ($ 18408 in 1996 dollars), the doctor earns an average of $ 10,700 ($ 76,000) and a 10-inch black and white television sells for $ 374 ($ 2,656). The magazine is known for its careful consultation and well written, went to first few waves. In 1950, he criticized the advertising of cigarettes and to end the insurance retiring at the age of 65 in 1952, he warned about the negative effects of television on children and, in 1953 he asked a level playing field for women.

In the three years since Hertz started the practice of screening tenants “Driving records, the situation has radically changed. Alamo, last year began examining records of drivers from seven states and the District of Columbia, abandoned that policy on May 23. Hertz and other major car rental, moves in the opposite direction, the pilot testing of a growing number of countries, while setting criteria for their release. Hertz began with the New York State For example, is now screening drivers from 10 states and the District of Columbia, Connecticut, is the latest addition.

In refine certain restrictions have been eased, particularly those accidents. But the rules are bigger violations: Notice of dollars and the two pilots want the screen, in the six previous years have been in the past because of driving under the influence of alcohol or controlled drugs. Avis is also a driver, whose record shows a conviction at any moment to leave the scene of an accident or possession of a stolen vehicle.

The companies say screening has sharply reduced the cost of liability insurance. A spokesman for Dollar Rent a Car said that the rejection of 5 per cent of drivers, the company has cut its responsibility from 10 to 20 per cent.

The nightmare of consumers developed a screening, where a traveler booking may be refused in the rental car counter, can now be avoided, at a price. For a fee of $ 10 or less, the pilots of most states concerned can learn when their records disqualify for rental of six large companies. The monitoring of convictions

Deborah Jaeger, Vice President for the development of TML in Queens, large companies, automobile registration process for car rentals, said that patterns of convictions were for detecting reliable forecasting undesirable tenants. The screening program was born in New York and Florida, where “the responsibility for others” laws “, a company car rental can be held responsible if a client injures or kills.

Given that the rents companies the responsibility to reduce costs, and because the part of drivers they refuse, are also declining, the screening criteria are underway on convictions. Hertz, for example, a former driver had refused two or more accidents during the 36 months or had one or more accidents in the same period, with one case of death or injury. Hertz has dropped these restrictions in May with two driving, or someone else driving licence without insurance or a valid license.

Refusal on the basis of the hackles of drivers, as safe. For example, people have been injured, inside parked cars, cars have another, it has shown “injury” even if it has not identified fault and were in fact victims. Ms. Jaeger said that such drivers, if refused, he had to make an appeal to file Hertz, with an additional stage, said she was not necessary.

Sandy Richards, a spokesman for Alamo, said that his company has left the program after the decision, it was not profitable. She said, Alamo has come late, after starting at 11 April 1994, and the company was troubled, and the criteria varied. In addition, she noted, driving records of all States are not open currently controls 15 states and the District of Columbia Records makes it totally or partially available.

Borderline pilot with safety recordings are licensed in most countries to sell their electronic records can now MG Thus, in advance, if it is rejected. Records are sold in Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and South Carolina and the District of Columbia. California, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Virginia, the driver who did not have access to their records, because LM said a signature was needed, and it was impossible to phone.

The landlord is not to control in advance, USA Automobile Association said that while many customers have never shown, and each presentation fees. The T.M.L. Check Travel program is called, the number (800) 388-9099, and loading of a credit card, $ 9.95 plus taxes, less $ 2 for members of the Auto Club.