Word: discount
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group of Boston University students calling themselves the Ad Hoc Committee for University Reform has threatened to instigate a boycott of the university-owned book store if the store if the does not institute a ten percent discount immediately...
Leaders of the group confronted University officials last week with a petition signed by 2700 students, demanding the discount on all educational materials sold in the store. The store is a limited department store and carries items other than books...
Julian T. Houston, a sophomore who leads the Ad Hoc Committee said yesterday that the demands for a discount were the outgrowth of "a larger problem of bureaucracy at the university. We have been treated as nameless, faceless I.D. cards," Houston charged, "being run through an assembly line...
Holiday shoppers found an unprecedented variety of gifts-thanks to the Kremlin's ever-increasing emphasis on consumer goods. In record numbers they jammed into department stores, shops and the barnlike discount houses called "market halls." Fifty new stores opened this month for the holiday season. In the huge but usually drab GUM department store, counters were piled high with everything from Winter Fantasy perfume ($4.44 an ounce) and 400 kinds of watches to luxury food baskets at only $57. To cope with a turnover of hall-a-million customers and $11.5 million in sales during the holiday week...
...prime reasons for the freshmen's impressive times against Army is the size of West Point's indoor track, twice as long as Briggs Cage's 150-yard oval. Yet size cannot discount the remarkably fast times recorded in the sprints and hurdles by the freshmen...