With that in mind, Winmill said looking ahead he would put a premium on Canadian companies.
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Among the banks, this will put a premium on investment-banking skills, which hardly plays to Japanese strengths.
These policies have artificially limited housing supply and put a premium on real estate in coastal regions.
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The self-publishing era has put a premium on quality content development and distribution.
Even within the guild, some tech entrepreneurs still put a premium on receiving tutelage directly from a master craftsman.
This has put a premium on generating more revenue from fee-based services, for example by selling pensions and insurance policies.
In our negative real interest rate environment, the market has begun to put a premium on the certainty of income.
He finds that both institutions put a premium on deep knowledge of academic disciplines and using technology to change the world.
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Their privatisation scheme put a premium on speed rather than rational restructuring.
Growth in the derivatives markets and proprietary trading at investment banks has put a premium on technically skilled people like Beguir, especially over M.
Just as they might pay more for younger players than older ones, clubs put a premium on players who have proven they can perform in England's top flight.
In a state racked by high unemployment and depressed home prices, a survey of voters at polling stations showed that Florida Republicans put a premium on which candidate was best suited to beating Mr. Obama.
"I also put a premium on making sure that everything is accurate and has been signed off by supervisors and people that kind of have the definitive word on questions that get asked, " he said.
The President put a premium on making sure that our personnel were protected and we were not going to give bin Laden or any of his cohorts the opportunity to carry out lethal fire on our forces.
But it is heaven for the young and flexible: help-wanted signs usually impose an upper age limit of 30, and the shift to free enterprise has put a premium on educated newcomers who do not have to unlearn the bad old ways.
The "dominant role of the public sector as an employer" particularly in Egypt, but throughout the region has inflated the graduates' wage expectations, put a premium on diplomas over useful skills and diverted talented workers from what might have been more dynamic private-sector enterprises, the IMF says.
He was trained at Arnold and Porter in Washington and was a partner at Howrey, Swidler Berlin and Dickstein Shapiro, specializing in dispute resolution and insurance, areas that put a premium on calculating what a case would cost to litigate and how much a jury might award in damages at the end.
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Trading in commodities such as oil and gold also stayed open, and the threat posed by Hurricane Sandy to gasoline refineries on the East Coast put a particular premium on watching the price moves in energy-related commodities.
They channeled the standards in Jasmine, but also put a high premium on improvisation.
One is that globalisation and competition from Asia (especially China) have put a bigger premium on size.
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She's not anti-intellectual, but she put a big premium on performance.
Kids love to talk, they love to send text messages and to download custom ring tones, and they put a high premium on having the newest and most stylish devices.
But it does provide us with a tantalizing indication for what may be in store with a wildly anticipated film that has otherwise put a high premium on plot details.
"On the busiest days there is a premium put on speed, " says Edward Ditmire, an analyst who covers the markets at Fox-Pitt Kelton.
The sheer swiftness of gold's decline on Monday meant that investors were willing to pay a premium for put options on gold and silver-backed exchange-traded funds, a centerpiece of his strategy.
As with a short call, when you go short a put, you collect the premium on the option as a credit in your account.
"For some reason investors put a much higher risk premium on stocks like Bimantara and Citra Marga, " he says.
There has been speculation among company-watchers that Apple may launch a cheaper iPhone, or a premium model with a bigger screen, but CEO Tim Cook put a damper on those rumors in his comments on a conference call following the report.
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