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Paying the Price
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

Paying the Price

This book considers the effectiveness of insurance coverage for low-probability, high-consequence events such as natural disastersâ€"and how insurance programs can successfully be used with other policy tools, such as building codes and standards, to encourage effective loss reduction measures. The authors discuss the reasons for the dramatic increase in insured losses from natural disasters since 1989 and the concern that insurers have about their ability to provide coverage against more such events in the future. It addresses why there has been an increasing demand for hazards insurance, what types of coverage private insurers are willing to offer, and the role of reinsurance and privat...

Directory of Music Faculties in Colleges and Universities, U.S. and Canada
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1072

Directory of Music Faculties in Colleges and Universities, U.S. and Canada

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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American Doctoral Dissertations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 896

American Doctoral Dissertations

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1995
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Dragonfly
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 434

The Dragonfly

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1970
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Financial Management of Earthquake Risk
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 132

Financial Management of Earthquake Risk

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This white paper provides an overview of the following: 1) how financial risk is managed in the residential, commercial, small business, lifelines and government sectors; 2) how risk can be reduced, transferred or avoided through the use of insurance, mortgages and capital market instruments; and 3) how earthquake engineering expertise fits into this process. The discussion should be useful for the following audiences: 1) engineering students and faculty in understanding different career options that use engineering knowledge; 2) practicing engineers in understanding how the information they provide to various clients is part of the larger process of financial risk management; and 3) financial managers in gaining a better understanding of how the financial and earthquake engineering communities are interrelated.

Final Environmental Impact Statement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 544

Final Environmental Impact Statement

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1990
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Rogue River National Forest
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 632

Rogue River National Forest

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1990
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Report of the Clerk of the House from
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1980

Report of the Clerk of the House from

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1995
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Covers receipts and expenditures of appropriations and other funds.

The Ancestors and Descendants of John Lewis Benson and His Sisters and Brother
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 500

The Ancestors and Descendants of John Lewis Benson and His Sisters and Brother

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-09-27
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  • Publisher: AuthorHouse

John Lewis Benson, born in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, was an 8th generation descendant of John Benson, who arrived in America at Plymouth Colony on 11 April 1638 on the ship "Confidence." After being reared in Chautauqua County, New York, John Lewis Benson's father, William, took him to Rock Island County, Illinois, following his daughters who had already made the migration. Shortly after reaching his majority, John Lewis Benson went to "Bleeding Kansas" as part of the wave of Abolitionists who sought to "keep Kansas free," which action reflected the devout Puritan Calvinism of his Benson forebears. He enlisted in the 5th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry two months after the first canon was fire...

Borges' Travel, Hemingway's Garage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Borges' Travel, Hemingway's Garage

The author has scoured Europe and the Americas photographing products and businesses that bear the great names of Western civilization and then recounted the little-known turns of fate by which the immortals ended in these mundane straits.