1.   And investors can depend on getting a hefty premium for some conventional preferred shares as companies buy them back in tender offers.

2.   As importantly, said people close to the talks, Tribune executives were suggesting that they were willing to pay a hefty premium.

3.   After all, how much more can a company be worth after figuring in a hefty premium on top of an already high market price?

4.   But competition led to consolidators paying hefty premiums for their purchases, plunging many into debt.

5.   But given the bull market on Wall Street, Staples would likely have had to pay a hefty premium, analysts said.

6.   But that still works out to a hefty premium.

7.   By buying back the bonds, Chrysler saved itself money on interest costs, but had to pay a hefty premium.

8.   Concerned about cash flow and forced to pay hefty insurance premiums, they may miss years of saving.

9.   Employees who insist on choosing fee-for-service arrangements with physicians and hospitals of choice pay a hefty premium for the privilege.

10.   In other words, what used to look like a free insurance policy turns out to carry a hefty premium.