Word: discount
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While Okemo does not have any special college ski weeks like some of the other places, the resort does try to attract students. The only mountain to offer a student discount, Okemo sells mid-week lift tickets for $13.50 (half of the regular $27) to anyone with a valid college...
...ever-optimistic mayor of Brigham City, Utah, home of a Thiokol plant, said, "It was an unfortunate incident, we have had an awfully good safety record in the past." He added "You can't discount the fact that we have had 24 successful launches...
Actually, it's easy to discount that fact. Especially when you consider that during the course of several of those launches, O-rings were dangerously eroded, and Morton-Thiokol knew...
...report that called for Japan to restructure its economy to be less dependent on exports. The government announced in September a $23 billion economic package to stimulate growth through increased allocations for public works and housing subsidies. In late October the central Bank of Japan cut its discount rate, the interest charged on loans to commercial banks, from 3.5% to 3%. It was the fourth cut this year. Officials are now studying tax reforms to spark consumer spending. Says James Vestal, senior economist with Britain's Baring Securities: "The government will facilitate change, and it will be a rocky road...
Other stores, including the coop andPennsylvania Company, are having discount sales toincrease their profits. Urban Outfitters willcontinue to sponsor a sale every week from nowuntil Christmas, said Sheila M. Carey, assistantmanager