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Word: premiums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of Nixon's successes and failures might have been predicted from his past record and his campaign statements. What could not have been anticipated is his erratic performance as an administrator. Few men know Washington better than Nixon, and few place a higher premium on order. The President retains his image of methodical competence. Yet the Administration appears in many ways to be maladroit and insensitive. More and more, comments TIME'S Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey, "there is an aura of ineptitude growing here that could spread to the nation. There is a growing feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: NIXON'S FIRST SIX MONTHS | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...indeed paradoxical that in a society that places such a premium on all sorts of privacy-private swimming pool, private entrance, private patio, private terrace, etc.-one nevertheless would turn one's bosom into a community chest. Could all this nudity be overcompensation for all the other privacy with its resulting isolation which affluence provides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 11, 1969 | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

...eight-mile pack trip to the lip of the can yon takes three hours, but this is just the first leg. Havasupai in need of sup plies must travel 120 miles to Kingman, Ariz. From there merchants will ship goods back to the canyon at a 40% to 60% premium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indians: Squalor Amid Splendor | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

...such an exaggerated emphasis on our getting to school exactly on time? Why was cheating on exams so fanatically discouraged even though a student writing an examination is no longer in a position to increase his store of knowledge on the subject at hand? Why was such a premium placed on competitiveness, and why were the most creative, most imaginative children always the most heavily penalized? As for the assertion that most of what is learned in school is necessary for later life, how then are we to explain the obvious fact that people generally forget most of what they...

Author: By David I. Bruck, | Title: A Proposal Concerning Exams | 4/28/1969 | See Source »

...contrived to work within the existing private carriers. But some critics have charged that this plan really doesn't solve the distribution dilemma: it offers better service to America's insurance-buying suburbanites, but it seems to turn down the urban an rural who can never scrape together insurance premium payments...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: American Medicine Heading for Collapse. . . | 3/17/1969 | See Source »

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