Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is not a wild caricature of prevailing liberal opinion. Liberal publications took obvious delight in exposing the falsehoods and hyperbole in Reagan's pronouncements. Mother Jones magazine even offered Reagan's Reign of Error as a subscription premium. Liberals assumed that if only people knew the facts, they would reject Reagan's simplistic demagoguery and turn to the enlightened liberal truth...
...drug use, as Bennett argues, is indeed a reflection of the nation's values. And as long as American society continues to place a higher premium on titillation than truth and on callousness than compassion, the latest attack on drugs may prove, like all the failed battle plans of the past, to be mostly futile flag waving...
...chariots all. Not the least of the Miata's attributes is its base price: just $13,800, or about $600 less than the average new-car price that U.S. consumers are currently paying. At the moment, however, the Miata is so popular that some dealers are tacking on a premium of as much as $4,000 to the base price...
...Japanese company is challenging his motives. They suspect that Pickens may be involved with Watanabe in a scheme to elicit a greenmail payment in return for the 20% stake. Koito officials say twice last year Watanabe approached them with an offer to sell back his shares at a premium. They believe that after Koito rejected Watanabe's offer, he searched for a buyer...
...million flight insurance at $13 a ticket works out to about a dime in expected payouts for every dollar in premiums, leaving Amex 90 cents to cover expenses and profit. The Statue of Liberty stood to gain a penny every time you charged an $80 dinner or a $400 airline ticket to your card, leaving Amex 319 pennies in the case of the dinner (at its service charge of about 4% for restaurants) or 999 pennies in the case of the ticket (at its 2 1/2% or so on airline fares). The premium you paid for the platinum card, which...