MTV's brand, its models-with-attitude presenters and its relentless marketing, has enabled it to pull ahead of its rival.

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Whatever the usefulness of the models, the debate may make reinsurers' attitude to catastrophe risk less reactive.

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He and Giammetti dutifully sampled the fare served by off-duty models in crisp white shirts and skinny black ties, but it was more an attitude of sociability than nutrition.

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