Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Auburn Street is the pinnacle of this violation. A broad open catwalk with unlimited perches presents various balconies with premium views: the Office for the Arts, Let's Go, Claverly steps, the Lampoon, the Spee, the Phoenix and the Fly among others. Hillel? Don't tell me M. Foucault wouldn't have something to say about that...
Breasts have never really gone away, as any two-month-old or longtime viewer of certain premium cable channels will tell you. And yet a heightened fascination with things bosomy seems to have infected the world of men's magazines--the general-interest sort, I mean. This is largely due to Maxim, the British import, which, in its year-and-a-half of American existence, has shaken the world of cigar love and five steps to great...
Human-hair extensions--preferred by stylists and celebs--used to cost thousands, not because of the cost of the hair but because experienced stylists were rare and could therefore charge premium rates. But a boom in trained stylists has meant competition, and newer, more affordable processes have tamped prices even further down. Los Angeles stylist Lisha Coleman may charge as much as $5,000 a head for top-of-the-line processes at the upcoming Gucci and Versace shows. But she provides alternatives as low as $300 for a multiethnic clientele of teachers and librarians...
...past few years, the stock market, led by institutional investors, has put a premium on growth that "surprises to the upside" or beats expectations, even though the companies carefully manage those expectations. In the past few years, only companies involved in computing--driven by ever cheaper, more powerful processors, better software and, of course, the Internet--could regularly deliver surprises that pleased investors. Microsoft's ability to "blow away the numbers" when it reported fourth-quarter earnings recently added billions to its capitalization and swelled its lead over steady, reliable General Electric as the world's largest company...
...Britain's request reflects a more European approach to dealing with terrorism. "France, for example, places a much higher premium on intelligence and threat avoidance," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "Sometimes they prefer to press the terrorists' host country to police their activities rather than get them extradited, which can spur further terrorist attacks." Washington, however, remains determined to see Bin Laden in an orange jumpsuit...