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Lloyd's Offers Investors $4.5 Billion Settlement; Plan Meant to End Litigation Over Losses
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Lloyd's of London, the famed global insurance giant, proposed a
$4.5 billion compensation plan today to settle mountains of
litigation from aggrieved investors and extricate both them and the
insurer from open-ended financial losses.
Without a resolution of lawsuits by thousands of Lloyd's
investors, "we haven't got a future," said Lloyd's Chairman David
Rowland. After $12 billion in losses since 1988 and billions in
outstanding insurance liabilities, "there's no U.S. cavalry coming
over the hill bearing great dollops of money," he said. Rowland tried
to prod litigants by noting that if ...
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Decline of ancient Roman and Byzantine Empires linked to dry spells.
News Wire article from: Asian News International
; ...decline of the Roman and Byzantine Empires in the Eastern Mediterranean...the fall of both Roman and Byzantine rule in the region. The...a time when Roman and Byzantine power in the region waned...this is what weakened the Byzantines or not isn't known, but...
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DECLINE OF ANCIENT ROMAN AND BYZANTINE EMPIRES LINKED TO DRY SPELLS
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
; ...decline of the Roman and Byzantine Empires in the Eastern Mediterranean...the fall of both Roman and Byzantine rule in the region. The...a time when Roman and Byzantine power in the region waned...this is what weakened the Byzantines or not isn't known, but...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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The lasting glory of its art; The Byzantine empire.(Brief article)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...whose ancient office is one of the Byzantine world's enduring bequests to...historian, who in 1869 described the Byzantine empire as the most thoroughly base and...Hellenic talent was freed from Byzantine dogmatism. Judith Herrin, a...
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The Emperor Justinian and the Byzantine Empire.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; The Emperor Justinian and the Byzantine Empire. By James Allan Evans. (Westport...concise introduction to the reign of Byzantine emperor Justinian. In AD 476...throne in Constantinople. The Byzantine Empire continued to expand in...
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A Byzantine sermon; Russia and its history.(The wrong history lessons)(The Destruction of the Empire: A Byzantine Lesson)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...and being a niece of the last Byzantine emperor, paid close attention...film, The Destruction of the Empire: a Byzantine Lesson . It proved so popular...spiritual heir: Russia. The Byzantine empire's rich and cultured...
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"Europe and The Byzantine Empire, C. 526 CE"
Map from: Maps.com World History Maps
; ...00-0000 Map of Europe and The Byzantine Empire, C. 526 CE Damascus Jerusalem...Franks Kingdom Of The Vandals Byzantine Empire Kingdom Of The Ostrogoths...Celts Thuringians Europe And The Byzantine Empire, C. 526 Ce Cordova Athens...
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The elusive Eastern Empire: as the Royal Academy in London opens a major new exhibition on the artistic splendours of the Byzantine empire, Dionysios Stathakopoulos surveys its history, from its foundation in 324 to its conquest in 1453.(BYZANTIUM)
Magazine article from: History Today
; [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Byzantine empire means different things to different...the golden-hued threads of Byzantine silks used to shroud Charlemagne...important constituting traits of the Byzantine empire date back to this early...
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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AUTHOR TAKES ON THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE AND EMERGES VICTORIOUS.(Lifestyle)(Review)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ...Byzantium,'' a history of the Byzantine Empire. Telling more than 1,100 years...proposes marriage to the de facto Byzantine empress, Irene, but her subjects...s overarching defense of the Byzantine empire is that it preserved art...
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Greenwood Press.(Daily Life in the Byzantine Empire)(Daily Life in the Mongol Empire)(Culture and Customs of Botswana)(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: California Bookwatch
; ...Rautman's DAILY LIFE IN THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE (0313324279, $49.95) discusses...daily concerns are insights into Byzantine perceptions, society, and family...college-level holding strong in Byzantine history will want this. George...
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Dr. Angeliki E. Laiou; Harvard professor was scholar of Byzantine empire; at 67 [Corrected 01/05/09]
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...scholar of the history of the Byzantine empire, her reach extended far beyond...peasant households in the late Byzantine empire, which "led her to the...marriage, and the status of women in Byzantine society, and the results of her...
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