Word: discount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more comfortable. Then inflation catches up with me. It's a treadmill." In Parma, Ohio, Lynda Smith, 37, a mother of two, agrees. The wife of an engineer for Ameritech, a regional phone company, she drives 30 miles round trip to stock up on canned goods at a discount grocery store. Says she: "Whenever my husband gets a raise, utilities, taxes or something else goes up. I don't think we're any better off in terms of buying power. We are about where we were five years...
...proposed regulation, which appears likely to gain approval, would specifically outlaw happy hours, discount prices, drinking contests that offer alcohol as a prize, and drinks larger than 16 ounces...
...Newark. The pact will not take effect until Nov. 1, but it has already come under heavy fire. Critics both in and out of the airline industry charge that the accord will reduce competition and hurt new airlines. Declares Michael Muse, chairman of Muse Air, a Dallas-based discount carrier: "If you take away the airlines' prerogative of scheduling flights when the passenger wants them, then you take away deregulation and put everything in the hands of the FAA. That was certainly not the intent of the people who wrote the deregulation legislation...
Page added that although most schools outside the Ivy League do not agree to provide reduced price tickets for visiting students. Harvard usually receives some discount from Boston area schools. He cited Holy Cross. Boston University and the University of Massachusetts as colleges whose contracts with Harvard call for reduced the tickets...
Penthouse, with 20.4 million average monthly circulation, "outsells Playboy two-to-one in newsstand sales," Maure said proudly. However, Playboy still circulates more because of its heavier subscription list. "That's because they discount their newsstand price for subscriptions. We don't," Maure explained...