Word: discount
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While it is necessary to discount such hysteria and maintain a sound historical perspective, it is still obvious that the U.S. must have gun legislation. Though states and localities have a bewildering crazy quilt of 20,000 weapon laws, only two are on the federal books. One is the National Firearms Act of 1934, taxing interstate shipments of such gangster-style weapons as machine guns and sawed-off shotguns. The other is the pallid Federal Firearms Act of 1938, prohibiting interstate gun shipments to felons. In 30 years, Congress has failed to enact a single new gun bill, thus allowing...
...guns and comics?including Superman and Combat?over to trash collectors. Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward stopped mail-order gun sales after King's assassination; Macy's, Alexander's and Abraham & Straus in New York had quit selling guns even before that. Last week Ohio's J-Mart discount stores gave their entire $20,000 inventory of guns to the Columbus police...
With Computers. Still spreading out, Randell early this year bought two other college marketing services and next week will begin a computerized service to match graduating seniors with corporate job openings through a third acquisition, Manhattan-based Compu-job. In mid-June he expects to open a campus discount store at the University of Oklahoma. "It's very easy to start a small business these days," Randell maintains, "if you want to give up everything else for years...
...jobs and $23 million in payrolls; the institute will have a pool of 5,000 students from which industry can draw trained help. Best of all, the changeover is selfsupporting. The Government as part of the phasing-out process turned over the school grounds at a "100% discount"; the industrial property is financed through a $3,087,500 mortgage that will be paid off in five years from rentals. The city of Springfield, in addition, will now get $105,000 a year in tax money from the operation besides being freed of $322,000 in the annual costs...
Parker, however, tends to discount Burk's interpretation. He maintains it is impossible to compare times in a race with no opposition...