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- <text id=91TT1841>
- <title>
- Aug. 19, 1991: Business Notes:Pensions
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Aug. 19, 1991 Hostages:Why Now? Who's Next?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 47
- Business Notes
- PENSIONS
- The $1 Million Apology
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- <p> His monthly pension is only $43.33, and every penny of it
- matters to Paul Hudspeth, a North Carolina textile worker who
- retired in 1975 from Cannon Mills. But last April, California
- regulators seized the ailing Executive Life Insurance Co.,
- slashing payments to Hudspeth and 8,800 other Cannon retirees
- 30%. Last week former Cannon owner David Murdock came to the
- rescue, promising he would make good on their losses with
- $800,000 of his own money, until Executive Life is shored up.
- Yet many blame Murdock for the mess. When he sold Cannon in
- 1985, Murdock replaced its pension plan with a group annuity
- contract from Executive Life--reaping $35 million in the
- process.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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