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...officials said they were raising their basic phone rates to provide lower rates for premium services, such as operator-assisted and third party billing calls...
...Some of the mutual funds that invest in stocks of a particular country, like the New Germany Fund, which immediately shot up to a 70% premium over its intrinsic value when it was launched last year, may make sense now that euphoria has turned to euphearia and premiums have turned to discounts. I bought a little of the Turkish Fund, traded on the New York Stock Exchange, when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, not because I know the first thing about Turkey but because it was trading at a 35% discount and I thought Turkey might somehow benefit from its newly...
...hour sewing bathing suits and bathrobes. In 14 years at the same factory, she has never had a raise, except the last time the state government increased the minimum wage. "I don't drink coffee there," she says. "I don't want to spend the money." When the premium for her medical insurance rose from $6 to $16 a week in 1988, she canceled it. "I can't afford it," she says quietly. What if she gets sick? "I never get sick...
...Saudis. But now, thanks to our decision to defend them from Iraq, oil is selling for over $30 per bbl. That should temper our gratitude for their decision to pump an extra 2 million bbl. a day. It means another $22 billion or so, plus an $18 billion premium on the 5.4 million bbl. a day they were already pumping. Meanwhile, we are paying for the oil and also paying untold billions to defend their right to pump unmolested...
...song was part of a station promotion Wednesday morning in which disc jockeys dressed as Arab sheiks and a service station offered drivers premium gasoline for 96 cents a gallon. Traffic tie-ups forced the event to end early...