Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sick with the pressure of having to sin the next day. Winning itself was rarely more than a breath-catcher en route to new pressures and more anxiety. I had wrought winning into an ultimatum whose fulfillment made me guilty not just because the life style put a premium on success, but because I had been educated to feel that independent success was meant for men. For women it had to be a by-product of a male-centered life, like a sideshow they could be proud of as long as it stayed in the wings. When my body began...
...aficionado puts it, is "basketball played on a football field with a club and a slow whistle." The ten-man teams are constantly on the move, passing and catching the hard rubber ball in the triangular nylon net at the end of their sticks. The game puts a premium on speed, deception and the kind of guts it takes to run a gauntlet of flying sticks and wing the ball at the 6-ft.-sq. goal at 100 m.p.h...
Caring. For a pretty woman, matrimony puts the highest sort of premium on that view, and the book, naturally, has some harsh words about what even a good marriage does to women. Are there any alternatives? Kate wonders. Probably not, Doris Lessing decides, at least for those women who seem to be born (as well as ingrained) with a sense of caring. Kate is intrigued and provoked, though, by a neighbor -either a mutant monster or the Woman of the Future-who seems to have no sense of responsibility and whose children still seem to have turned out well enough...
...keep their stock attractive. They began inventing fictitious insurance policyholders, putting them on the books and selling the phony policies to other companies that were in the business of reinsurance. Under this arrangement, the reinsurer pays the company that sold the policy $1.80 for every $1 it gets in premiums the first year. The buyer hopes to make a profit by later getting most of the premium money while the seller continues to service the policy. To get the money to pay the premiums for phantom policyholders, Equity had to sell greater amounts of fictitious insurance policies every year. That...
...brands may yet sell well, but the industry consensus is that light whisky, on the whole, is an idea whose time may never come. "Light whisky has been greeted with a yawn," says Jack Yog-man, president of Joseph E. Seagram, which sells two lights: Galaxy and Four Roses Premium...