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...Wall Street's judgment on Dow Jones ownership is pitiless. Investors in Murdoch's News Corporation hardly batted an eye when the old man bid $60 a share for a company that has been south of $40 a share for years. That enormous premium is the financial community's rough measure of the value of new management...
...growing chain of stores in a growing industry, and it just may be the cool place to find trendy fashions at a fair price this summer. These are not the musty, downmarket stores of yore. The best ones are as carefully curated as a Soho boutique; put a premium on current styles, not vintage novelties; and turn a healthy profit...
...complicated and easier to access, the incentives to immigrate illegally will pale beside the ease of the legal path to citizenship. Ultimately, however, there must be some process of selecting who will become a permanent resident and eventually a citizen. We believe that a system that puts a higher premium on skills better meets America’s demands than the status quo, and we hope that the ultimate bill keeps this crucial feature...
...expensive, then so be it. "If we can get it in four weeks in the U.K., we'll buy it at four weeks in the U.K. rather than buying it cheaper" elsewhere over a longer time frame, says Karyn Fenn, Topshop's other joint managing director. That's a premium the chain's customers have come to expect and are willing to pay for. A halter top, for example, might cost three times as much at Topshop as a comparable piece from...
...fans end up paying an average of 45% above face value for resold tickets, according to a study by Alan Krueger, economics professor at Princeton University. Sites like StubHub are, in effect, helping to determine the correct price for tickets; even Ticketmaster now uses an auction to price some premium seats. For music fans, that means the days of camping overnight for a front-row ticket are truly over. But they'll pay a little more for the privilege...