Word: premium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Appeal Dept: I used to have little respect for the makers of Johnny Walker scotch, a fair-to-good booze that has elevated itself to premium status (and price) through clever advertising campaigns...
...Nation Can Demand Sacrifices for Public Service. Few deny that top Executive Branch officials are underpaid. Money, however, is but one measure of compensation for serving at the highest levels of Government; there is also a huge premium to be derived from fascinating work, public recognition and perhaps even the chance to shape history. This is why it is disturbing that the President's ethics commission last week kicked the issue of limits on outside earned income for top officials to Congress, an institution not known for its ethical sensitivity...
...fallen from 94.2 lbs. in 1976 to 72.7 lbs. last year. The Japanese investment should also be a boon for Americans who sell supplies and expertise to the new beef barons. Says John Morse, president of Selkirk Ranch: "The Japanese are willing to pay a premium for people who will raise beef the way they want to produce...
...previous comment as the personal opinion of one of its employees. At the same time, the news agency reported that a local newspaper had denounced the offer of money to anyone who would kill Rushdie, observing that "to pay one man to kill another man is murder at a premium and not a religiously inspired act." This remarkable display of vacillation, played out in the dispatches from Tehran, suggested that pragmatists in Iran had begun a campaign to control the damage caused by the Ayatullah's earlier pronouncement...
...billion in the first decade, but that number in fact described only how much the plan would aggravate budget deficits. The actual spending from general revenues would be closer to $60 billion. But purely from an accounting standpoint, its impact will be offset by $20 billion in increased insurance-premium fees to be collected from the banking industry -- even though the funds will be earmarked for future banking bailouts rather than for cleaning up the thrifts...