Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that we have now. It took a decade or two for tht to come out of industrial unionism, but I would expect it on campus, partly because there would be a career for more conservative students in this kind of campus political activity. (There might even develop some premium for dessing like the lawyer you hire or that you talk with across the table.) At most universities the majority student opinion is far less radical than the activities that hit the headlines. At most universities there's no way now that a silent majority, or even a silent large majority...
Consequently Laird is faced with the ticklish problem of being different without being disloyal. Any future political ambitions depend upon the good graces of party regulars who, like their leader, place a premium on loyalty. Laird clearly does not wish to offend Nixon...
Probably never before in history has a sport been used so effectively as a tool of international diplomacy. With its premium on delicate skill and its onomatopoeic name implying an interplay of initiative and response. Ping Pong was an apt metaphor for the relations between Washington and Peking. "I was quite a Ping Pong player in my days at law school," President Nixon told his aides last week. "I might say I was fairly good...
...Keefer, who has visited the mainland a dozen times, "everyone is nice and polite. They do tend to be political from time to time. Until we get to the business part." Then the Chinese are all business. They never give a discount for large orders or pay a premium for attractive delivery terms. To anyone's knowledge, the Chinese have not once agreed to a sale on anything but their own conditions...
...firm is expected to make $40 million by offering its shares at $20 to $24. That would amount to a conservative ratio of 15 times or 18 times last year's earnings of $1.35 a share. Nobody would be surprised if the shares jumped to a premium...