Business
A Prudential Insurance Co. of America unit Thursday agreed to pay a $20-million regulatory fine to settle a deceptive sales practices case that already caused the nation’s largest life insurer to set aside $2.6 billion to settle private claims.
July 9, 1999
Science & Medicine
Dan Glickman, the secretary of agriculture-designate, will soon face confirmation hearings before the Senate Agriculture Committee.
March 8, 1995
Books
Taken together, “Forcing the Spring” and “Not in Our Backyard” represent a policy junkie’s Whole Earth Catalogue: They offer a panoramic compilation of the environmental critique of contemporary American society.
Jan. 9, 1994
Finance: Officials assert panel is too influential. But others fear S&L-like; disaster if watchdog is muzzled.
April 30, 1996
Visa Inc., Mastercard Inc., PayPal Holdings Inc. and Stripe Inc. are wavering over whether to sign onto Facebook’s cryptocurrency project.
Oct. 2, 2019
The seizure of Executive Life Insurance Co.
April 13, 1991
Politics
Robert B. Reich hardly fits the conventional mold of secretary of labor.
Dec. 12, 1992
Businesses generally applauded President-elect Bill Clinton’s choice of Carol Browner, chief of Florida’s Department of Environmental Regulation, to be the next administrator of the U.S.
President Bush on Monday loosened federal regulatory control of the $4-billion biotechnology industry, saying that will help it grow to a $50-billion giant by the end of the decade.
Feb. 25, 1992
Money & Company
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Nov. 21, 2008