Word: discount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this time the Crimson isn't going to discount the Quakers...
...like Paul Craig Roberts of Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies charge that Greenspan also helped cause last week's market disaster. They note that back on Sept. 4, Greenspan's first important move as Fed chief was to push successfully for a hike in the bellwether discount rate, the interest that the Fed charges on funds lent to financial institutions, from 5 1/2% to 6%. It was the first such increase in nearly 3 1/2 years...
...result? A dollar over-valued by 40percent; a 40 percent tax on all exports; a 40percent discount on all imports, [and] a nationaldebt of two trillion dollars," Dukakis said...
With the appropriate coupon, students are entitled to purchase one seat for the discount price of 10 dollars. In addition, an adjoining seat in the Yale Bowl may be purchased for the full ticket price of twenty dollars...
...remaining candidates suffer from a common problem: with the exception of Jesse Jackson, they are still not well known nationally. Only Jackson has developed a large body of committed supporters willing to overlook errors and discount or ignore unfavorable publicity. The others remain vulnerable to being blown away by the first puff of bad news, as happened to Hart and Biden, and could yet occur to Dukakis. The threat is all the greater for a related reason: without large issues to distinguish the candidates, media coverage has tended to focus on personality and character, tricky subjects for campaigns whose first...