Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After cranberries, caponettes. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Arthur S. Flemming took aim last week at the plump, premium-priced table fowl, gave them both barrels, and shot down the nation's entire supply. Behind his action lay some farfetched reasoning that the chemical used to caponize young chickens and make them into capettes or caponettes might conceivably induce cancer in the consumer...
...deliberate "C-men," for whom President Lowell had always felt particular antipathy, were at last becoming a minority group. Partly by his own example of industry, Lowell had instilled in faculty and students alike a distaste for complacency and intellectual lethargy. The tutor system too had a new premium on individual effort, so that the men who had planned on doing just enough to get by were finding it rather heavy going...
...negotiating parties know that a compromise will finally be reached, there is a premium on adopting an extreme position," he maintained. "We can not make proposals we believe in, and yet constantly come out with new proposals." If the result is increased rigidity in policy-making, he continued, there is an equal increase in responsibility...
...better accident records than states without them.) The unions have come to regard featherbedding as a sort of fringe benefit, making up for the fact that railroad men have to sit by the phone for long hours without pay while waiting for a call to work, get no premium pay for nights, Sundays or holiday work, are not paid for away-from-home terminal expenses. Furthermore, despite all the complaints about featherbedding, 800 to 1,000 railroad workers, on an average, lose their jobs every week because of more automation and better equipment. But most of those who lose jobs...
...Premiums for Sophisticates. But there is another group of market sophisticates whose risk in dealing with puts and calls is much less. These are the people who make options available from the stocks in their portfolios. To find them, Filer, Schmidt and the nation's 20 other put and call dealers turn to investment trusts, pension funds and individual portfolio holders who intend to hold their stock for long periods. For selling a put or call the stockholder receives a premium ranging from $112.50 on 100 shares and up, depending on the price of the stock and length...