Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other great winners are Europe's shareholders. As one analyst pointed out, no matter whether Olivetti or Telecom Italia's management prevails in their battle, Telecom's shareholders have already earned a nice premium. Europe's cosseted work force, on the other hand, has not yet fully come to grips with what those investment banking euphemisms like "synergies" and "restructuring" can mean. As their American union counterparts discovered a decade ago, mergers will make Europe's largest firms more efficient and competitive, but they will do so by shedding thousands of jobs. And in Europe, where unemployment levels are more...
Essentially, Hallmark is abandoning the high ground of prose and pictures for a frontal assault. Although the company still sells premium-priced (about $5) cards in its own shops and franchised outlets, the real battle has shifted to the mass-market stores, such as supermarkets and discounters. There the cardmakers are left slugging it out over exclusive contracts for coveted shelf space. The aggressive deals cut by retailers, combined with slowing sales volume, have put the squeeze on profits...
...into Microsoft's Office web long ago. Since it controls 75% of the market, you probably use one or more of its applications: Word (for word processing), Outlook (for e-mail), Excel (for spreadsheets), Access (for databases) and Powerpoint (to make tedious, overhead-style slides for interminable meetings). The premium package adds the Web-page builder FrontPage; the image manipulator PhotoDraw; and Publisher, a desktop publishing program. It comes on an intimidating four (!) CD-ROMs, but I needed to install only the first disk to get started; the others hold supplementary material that many users won't need...
...highly curable when caught in the earliest stages. However, most relapses, when they occur, show up within five years of the initial treatment and are usually fatal. Perhaps 5% of metastasizing tumors are small enough to give patients a reasonable chance for complete cure. So there's a premium on finding and treating them early...
Convincing a whole nation to pay a hefty premium for something available at home for next to nothing has to be one of the greatest feats in the history of American advertising. That's not to say there aren't places in the U.S. where avoiding tap water is probably a good idea, but on the whole American tap water is clean, well-regulated and safe...