Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state primaries put a premium on at least five qualities that are pertinent to the presidency...
...Missing Premium. Why? Says Walter Heller, a member of TIME's Board of Economists: "This is a mystery to all of us." Economists do have some explanations, however. The most important: not only current price rises but expectations of future ones have diminished to the point where lenders no longer feel they have to tack a high "inflation premium" onto loan charges -and businessmen would not pay such a premium anyway...
workers would pay taxes that would be a kind of premium and "earn" the right to receive benefits when they retired...
...Assume risk of loss rather than insuring Fine Arts in Dumbarton Oaks Museum--value $7,978,588--Annual premium and record of losses last 10 years. (Fogg and Peabody do not insure Harvard owned Fine Arts...
...proposed legislation would also prevent states from setting minimum premium rates. This might encourage property and liability insurers to experiment with "mass-merchandising" techniques-selling policies by mail, for example, with no agents involved-and also with writing group policies, as life and health insurers commonly do. At present, property and liability insurers have no incentive to try these strategies; they are in effect forbidden by some state authorities to pass to consumers the savings in costs that might result...