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Deep discounts are a devil's bargain. If companies slash prices, will they generate enough extra traffic to offset the loss of revenue per customer? Immediately after the attacks, airlines avoided discounts, figuring that anybody still interested in flying would pay top dollar. Now they are discounting in the hope of filling planes. Before Sept. 11 airlines needed to collect between 10[cents] and 12[cents] a mile for each seat to break even, but now that has gone...
AVAILABILITY: Online and in Army-surplus stores, if you can find them. The Advantage runs about $160. Israeli masks can go for as little as $19.99. Face masks cost about $1 at medical-supply houses, but even at that bargain price, there's no point in buying them...
...mood to bargain for your own Chinese art, take a 10-minute taxi ride to the Dongtai Road antiques market, where crowded stalls offer everything from kitschy Mao memorabilia to exquisitely carved Qing dynasty wooden doors hauled from nearby mountain villages. For more modern fare, hail another taxi for a five-minute ride west to the small, sleek ShanghART Gallery, where avant-garde artists show off their best work. The gallery is nestled in Fuxing Park, a secluded green space where pensioners go through the dreamlike motions of Tai Chi or hone their falsettos to traditional Shanghai opera...
...before settling in at the 8600 level. It doesn?t look a lot like the turning point, considering most of the buying was by institutional investors merely gathering up some of the stocks they?d dropped Friday ahead of a possible weekend war. The rest was some very choosy bargain-hunting...
...brought Hawkins suit to surface. In a letter sent out to members of the Groton community addressing the hostile media onslaught that followed, Headmaster William M. Polk wrote, It is important to note that the allegations were first reported by Mr. Hawkins in the context of his trying to bargain with me to stop disciplinary action from being taken against other students in an unrelated disciplinary proceeding...