Word: discount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eliminate credit cards and cut its gasoline prices by 30 per gal., competitors snickered. After all, 25% of drivers buy gasoline on credit. But when Arco's volume started zooming upward, the competition quickly retaliated. Exxon and Amoco, two of the nation's largest marketers, announced a discount-for-cash policy. And Shell counterattacked by accepting credit cards from Arco holders and converting them into Shell customers...
This does not mean the group, which raised much of the picture's minuscule $60,000 budget from family and friends (with the aid of an Oxford alumnus. Director John Schlesinger, who helped get production equipment at a discount), has achieved a perfectly glittering surprise on its first try. Indeed the film is flawed at its center by an unattractive protagonist named Edward, an oversmart, oversmug womanizer and all-around user of people, who is supposed to summarize all that is wrong with traditional Oxford attitudes. In this role Robert Woolley does the nasty bits well, but mostly leaves...
Williams and four co-defendants were found guilty on Dec. 15 of conspiring to bribe Cannon by offering him choice Teamsters-owned property in Las Vegas at a $200,000 discount in return for the Senator's help in scuttling a trucking-deregulation bill. Williams will undergo medical tests at a federal prison in Springfield, Mo., that could lighten his sentence. He is the third president of the 1.9 million-member union to receive a prison sentence in a criminal case in the past 25 years...
...high as $1.2 million. They come complete with spectacular views, small kitchens (who cooks?), marble baths with Jacuzzi whirlpools and a roof garden for parties. Owner Harold Lynn, 45, a onetime Seventh Avenue clothing importer, admits that the Rolls come-on amounts to a $110,000 discount to perk up sales (twelve of his 21 units are unsold...
...promotion seems to have worked. The ad brought sightseers, who gawked at the Silver Spirit parked out front, and at least two serious potential purchasers. But while one wants the Rolls, the other asked for a cash discount instead. Perhaps it was the car. The Silver Spirit, notes Rolls-Royce Spokesman Reg Abbiss, is "the bottom of the line...