Word: discount
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small local customers. The foreign banks often make adventuresome loans that U.S. banks turn down and fatten their reserves by accepting U.S. deposits, mostly from immigrants with sentimental ties to the old country. They also have some novel ways of attracting U.S. customers. The Manhattan branch of the Israel Discount Bank, for example, offers its own version of the Christmas Club for savings-a Chanukah Club, tied to the Jewish Feast of Lights...
...complaint about work procedures, every demand for extra comforts. Some, such as demands for heated washrooms in the winter and free safety glasses on production lines, seemed sensible enough. Others seemed to have been brought up simply to raise tempers: free time off for deer hunting and a 50% discount on G.M. cars for workers with 15 years' service (G.M. executives get 25% off at most...
Picture quality and set durability have both been greatly improved, but set prices are still too high for the mass market, generally starting at $400; even the lowest discount price is still about 8280. Sponsors do not want to pay premium color costs (about $10,000 extra for a half-hour show) to reach limited audiences; audiences are not likely to grow dramatically until more color is offered on TV. NBC now schedules 50% of its network programs in color, but CBS broadcasts no regular color programs, ABC only...
...DEPARTMENT STORE SALES: Last week businessmen were cheered by reports of rising department stores sales for June in the telltale New York City area. This statistic, like many commonly used ones, ignores some recent and significant changes in the economy, since it fails to measure the growth of discount houses and other fast-expanding stores that have no index of their own. Says Roye L. Lowry, executive secretary of the Federal Statistics Users' Conference: "Considering that drugstores now sell pots and pans and that supermarkets sell clothes and fertilizer, the figures on department store sales really...
...former ambassador to India refused to discount the letter as a student prank. "It doesn't sound like a normal student joke to me," he said...