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- From: kenny@osf.org (Kenneth Crudup)
- Subject: Re: I'll have a PBJ please.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.190139.24426@osf.org>
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- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- References: <1ji9sdINNbc6@bigboote.WPI.EDU> <s6VqXB2w165w@major.panix.com> <1993Jan23.061209.26866@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 19:01:39 GMT
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- In article <s6VqXB2w165w@major.panix.com>
- dos@major.panix.com (Dave O'Shea) writes:
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- >Having worked for an insurance company, I can tell you in no uncertain
- >terms that private car insurance is not profitable at all; most
- >companies sell it only because it is required if they wish to sell
- >other, more profitable lines, within the same state.
-
- In article <1993Jan23.061209.26866@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- tedebear@leland.Stanford.EDU (Theodore Chen) writes:
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- >question: when you say "not profitable at all, does that include
- >the money they make by investing the premiums collected?
-
- Just the question I was gonna ask...."Voodoo" accounting can work wonders.
- I don't buy it.
-
- -Kenny
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