21.   Bell Atlantic, which has not released any details about its stock offer for AirTouch, reportedly wants to avoid paying a high premium.

22.   A number of telephone companies rose on expectations that state-controlled assets will be sold at high premiums, boosting the value of the shares.

23.   All this means that there continues to be a high premium on the operation of due process.

24.   Both are instinctive politicians who place a high premium on loyalty and message.

25.   Business, civic and political leaders in Kansas City and elsewhere put a high premium on their legislators bringing home the bacon.

26.   But putting so high a premium on bloodless combat and so much faith in high technology has also raised some troubling questions.

27.   But that course would imply very high premiums.

28.   Carlyle is quick to point out that, for all his commitment to politically engaged work, he places a high premium on enjoying himself, too.

29.   Critics of the program say that even with its high premiums, rates charged to Condo-JUA customers are still too low.

30.   Critics of this approach said the private market is too tumultuous to trust, and could result in unpredictably high premiums.