In 1974, he became a personal assistant ; first to Sir James Goldsmith and then in 1976 to United States Senator Mark Hatfield, whose service he left in 1978 to become a director of Bland Welch, Lloyd's Brokers.

The director Henry King was impressed with his looks and poise, and he insisted that Power be tested for the lead role in Lloyd's of London, a role thought already to belong to Don Ameche.

He was also chairman of the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company, a director of Lloyd's Bank and served as head of the British Food Mission to the United States between 1941 and 1944 and as the Treasury representative to the United States between 1944 and 1946.

The director Ian Sharp, who was hired due to Lloyd's liking of his direction in The Professionals, was invited to Stirling Lines where he met with some of the troop who assaulted the Iranian Embassy.

He was a member of the board of Lloyd's of London ( 2004-11 ) ( the international insurance market ), a director of Marathon Oil, UC Rusal ( the world's largest aluminum producer ), and AES ( the global power company ), and a trustee ( formerly Vice Chairman ) of RAND Corporation, the Smithsonian Museum of American History, The Atlantic Council, and the Salzburg Global Seminar.

Several of Head's siblings were also to be successful in their own fields: Francis Head joined Lloyd's alongside his father and became the director of Henry Head and Co. until his death, aged 37, in 1905.

Arguably, Lloyd's practice of using reserves in “ year 3 ” to establish the RITC premiums should have resulted in a more equitable handling of “ long-tail ” losses such as APH than would the stock company approach.

In the great Underwriting Room of Lloyd's stands the Lutine Bell, which was struck when the fate of a ship “ overdue ” at its destination port became known.

There are two classes of people and firms active at Lloyd's.

There is no connection in origin between Lloyds Bank ( no apostrophe ) and Lloyd's of London, Lloyd's Register or Lloyd's List ( which were spawned by Lloyd's Coffee House ).

There is also a small Co-operative store ( Mercer Street ), as you walk in to the village there is a fish and chip shop, an independent betting shop, a Lloyd's chemist and a post office, all located on Clay Lane.

There are many different convenience stores in the square, most notably the Co-operative Supermarket, and two branches of Lloyd's Pharmacy.

The town was the site of the first Lloyd's Supercenter, and is home to many retail stores, shopping centers and restaurants, many of which are located along Route 211.

The working and external members are elected by Lloyd's members.

Coverholders are an important source of business for Lloyd's.

Their numbers have increased steadily in recent years, and there are now about 2, 500 Lloyd's coverholders producing around 30 % of Lloyd's premium income each year.

They must hire Lloyd's brokers, who are the only customer-facing companies at Lloyd's.

Lloyd's is not publicly traded, though some of its members are listed companies, such as Hiscox Ltd, Catlin Group Ltd and Hardy Underwriting Bermuda Ltd.

Heinlein may have come up with the term himself, but there are earlier citations: a piece in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1889, used the term in reference to Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward: 2000 – 1887 and other works ; and one in the May, 1900 issue of The Bookman said that John Uri Lloyd's Etidorhpa, The End of the Earth had " created a great deal of discussion among people interested in speculative fiction ".

All Royal Fleet Auxiliaries are built and maintained to Lloyd's Register and Department for Transport standards.

Rogers ' iconic London buildings are probably Lloyd's Building and the Millennium Dome, while Foster created the ' Gherkin ' and the City Hall.

Overlooking the Cape are the ruins of the Lloyd's signal station, which was used to monitor shipping.

Among the notable buildings on whose design he worked are the Centre Pompidou, the Sydney Opera House, Lloyd's of London, the Louvre Pyramid, the Mound Stand at Lord's Cricket Ground, Kansai International Airport and Stansted Airport.

Lloyd's algorithm and k-means are often used synonymously, but in reality Lloyd's algorithm is a heuristic for solving the k-means problem, as with certain combinations of starting points and centroids, Lloyd's algorithm can in fact converge to the wrong answer.

A year later, the Finance Act 1998 went even further, making it clear that taxable trading profits ( apart from those accruing to a Lloyd's corporate name or to a life assurance company ) and profits from a rental business are equal to profits calculated under generally accepted accounting practice (" GAAP ") unless there is a specific statutory or case law rule to the contrary.

Lloyd seeks advice and counsel from his sister and several close female friends who are genuinely looking out for Lloyd's best interests as he embarks on his first serious romantic relationship.

No references to the shipwreck are known to exist in contemporary records or sources, including newspapers, Lloyd's List or Lloyd's Register.

Lloyd's Rules for ships are derived from principles of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, and govern safety and operational standards for numerous merchant, military and privately-owned vessels all around the world.

Ships are inspected on a regular basis by a team of Lloyd's Register surveyors, one of the most important inspections being a ship's annual Load Line Survey.

In Hong Kong, where the largest number of Approved Lloyd's Coverholders are domiciled in Asia Pacific, insurers and their potential clients seek a closer way for the Lloyd's market to access the emerging insurance market of Asia Pacific and vice versa.

The site, which will be occupied from 2014, will house, amongst others, the Group Technology Centre of Lloyd's Register who have announced a strategic alliance with the University and the University Maritime Institute.

Lloyd's income counted as earned income, even for Names who did not work at Lloyd's, and this heavily influenced the direction of underwriting: in short, it was desirable for syndicates to make a ( small ) underwriting loss but a ( larger ) investment profit.

In the case of Lloyd's this resulted in the bankruptcy of thousands of individual investors who indemnified ( via RITC ) general liability insurance written from the 1940s to the mid 1970s for companies with exposure to asbestosis claims.

Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith was born in Cliftonville, Kent, on 29 September 1913, the only son and elder child of Arthur John Howard-Smith, who worked as the Ceylon representative for Lloyd's of London, and his Canadian wife, Mabel Grey Wallace, a nurse.

Reporter Chad Garrison spoke with George Gaines, a nephew of Lloyd's who was one of only two surviving family members who had been alive when Lloyd disappeared, although he had only been an infant at the time, and other, younger descendants.

Mildred Hillary Davis ( February 22, 1901 – August 18, 1969 ) was an American actress who appeared in many of Harold Lloyd's classic silent comedies and eventually became his wife.

She also developed a long-lasting friendship with Lloyd's assistant, Roy Brooks, who lived with them at Greenacres for over forty years.

Cooper had become a ' name ' at Lloyd's of London, a supposedly ' blue chip ' investment, but in the 1990s he was reportedly one of those who suffered enormous personal losses because of the unlimited liability which a ' name ' was then responsible for, and he was forced to sell his hard won Lonsdale belts.

Influenced by their father, who was a minor league player in Oklahoma City, Paul and Lloyd's love and natural talent for the game developed over the years.

He was separated from his wife in 1761, and would have been imprisoned for debt but for the timely help of Lloyd's father, who had been an usher and was now a master at Westminster.

Financial backers, who would accept some of the risk on a given venture ( historically a sea voyage with associated risks of shipwreck ) in exchange for a premium, would literally write their names under the risk information that was written on a Lloyd's slip created for this purpose.

A Lloyd's Coverholder is one such example in which a Lloyd's Syndicate ( an insurer who is a member of Lloyd's of London ) delegates its underwriting authority to, hence allowing that syndicate to operate in a region or country as if it is a local insurer.

The African-American abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who had grown up as a slave on one of Lloyd's plantations, discussed Lloyd in his 1845 autobiography The Narrative of Frederick Douglass.

The two executives who commented on the unrealistic look of Lloyd's spacecraft are played by Stargate SG-1 executive producer Michael Greenburg and executive producer / co-creator Brad Wright.

Although Panama eventually confirmed that the vessel was still legally registered by that government as Lichfield I for the ship's true original owners and Lloyd's Registry of Shipping confirmed this information, further legal questions were generated about how the ship had passed from the hands of the US government into the physical possession of Ganter who had then sold the ship to Weiner.

Rude collected on a Lloyd's of London insurance policy and did not appear in wrestling again until 1996, when he joined Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ) as a masked man who harassed Shane Douglas, at one point spanking Francine.

The move reunited him with Bears offensive coordinator Ron Turner, who was Lloyd's head coach at Illinois.