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- <text id=92TT1028>
- <title>
- May 11, 1992: Buiness:Et Cetera
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- May 11, 1992 L.A.:"Can We All Get Along?"
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 14
- BUSINESS
- Et Cetera
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- <p> A COSTLY POLICY
- </p>
- <p> Like a good neighbor, State Farm was there last week,
- settling the most expensive sex-discrimination suit in U.S.
- history. After 13 years of litigation, the nation's largest home
- and auto insurer agreed to pay 814 California women $157
- million for discriminatory hiring practices during the 1970s.
- </p>
- <p> TWO SUITORS
- </p>
- <p> A battle for control of Midland Bank has begun. Last week
- Lloyds Bank announced that it was considering making a $6.6
- billion bid for Midland, Britain's third largest bank, besting
- the $5.8 billion offer made by Hong Kong-based HSBC Holdings.
- If the deal goes through, the Lloyds-Midland combo, with assets
- of $197 billion, will rank 18th in the world.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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