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...state primaries put a premium on at least five qualities that are pertinent to the presidency...
Secretaries find single-element typewriters faster, and the machines have fewer moving parts to maintain. From IBM's point of view, of course, their real attraction is profitability. Less labor is involved in the manufacture of the Selectric, yet it sells for a premium price -$630-$840. All of IBM's new rivals sell in the $650-$700 range. Now, though the company denies it, IBM appears to be withdrawing gradually from the ordinary electric typewriter market. It is a move that in the long run may help spell the end of the familiar, jammable typewriter. Another innovation...
...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...