Word: discount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...authors have been careful to discount race as one of the constitutional factors that might affect crime rates. They write that studies show "race is far less important than age, sex, intelligence and the other individual factors that vary within races." That may not be enough to mollify some liberals in the field, who are already beginning to call Crime and Human Nature a right-wing book for a right-wing age. "This has nothing to do with the conservative times," Wilson insists. "Do not put the book in that framework...
Card rates range widely across the U.S. Consumers in Arkansas are lucky: state law caps credit-card interest at 5% above the Federal Reserve's discount rate, and they currently pay only about 12 3/4%. The rates climb above 20% in California and other states...
...fraud" but does not cite any examples. However, files in Cedar Rapids show he was convicted of obtaining merchandise by fraud. Dummy corporations he set up ordered calculators, watches, radios, stereos, TVs and musical instruments from out-of-state manufacturers, then sold the products locally for cash at discount prices. Problem was, McClintic's corporate ghosts failed to pay the suppliers. Thousands of dollars worth of merchandise were involved...
Long a victim of financial hard times, The National Lampoon decided to cut the subscriptions from discount sources like the Publisher's Clearinghouse, which are less profitable for the magazine. After the cut, paid subscriptions are now down to 300,000, but National Lampoon editor-in-chief Matty Simmons said the magazine hopes to recoup the lost subscriptions through newsstand sales, which generate the highest profit...
...less than the established OPEC price of $28 per bbl. While Middle East oilmen could not confirm last week that the Saudis had signed any such agreements, trade sources elsewhere said that the U.S. oil giants Exxon, Mobil and Texaco would buy some crude under the discount system...