Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...growing importance of labor-management relations has also put a premium on patience. It is perhaps significant that an expert in the field, Professor of Management Douglas V. Brown of M.I.T., who thinks that Americans are impatient generally, maintains that in labor relations they are more patient than any other people...
...board match had six slams and only six non-game contracts. The contest was scored by international match points which put a premium on making games and slams while de-emphasizing over-tricks...
Lightning Strikes Once. After three successive bad years, premium rates are due to rise again this year in most casualty categories. At the same time, the casualty companies are looking for other ways to offset losses. One is by reducing overhead; most companies are cutting office staffs, installing computers to handle paperwork, and working mergers with life insurance companies to improve profits. Most of all, they are pushing multiple-line insurance, in which a single policy covers everything from robbery to a ruined house. On the theory that lightning never strikes twice in the same place-or that investigators...
...inspiration than any other English Gothic church, the Abbey has one feature that is missing in France's cathedrals-a wide viewing-gallery atop its first level. One reason: the Abbey is a royal church; extra room for viewing of royal ceremonies has always been at a premium...
...them down so much that it really hurt. Despite a net underwriting loss of $759,000 over its last 18-month reporting period, the company showed an overall profit of $10 million, paid its 14,373 shareholders about 75% of that in dividends. How? By astute investment of premium income. Swiss Re owns $811 million in interest-bearing investments and has cash reserves of $31 million-enough, suggested one hyperimaginative financial writer recently, to cover the cost of the end of the world. Says Chairman Max E. Eisenring, 55: "The writer is overstating it by a shade...