Word: discount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ironically, the new accounts are arriving at a time when interest rates have been falling. The Federal Reserve Board cut its discount rate to 9% last week, for example, the lowest level since November...
...stodgy company with more detailed budgeting, more specific planning and fewer stores that catered exclusively, in his words, to "old birds like myself." Only last September, in a decisive move to streamline and, he hoped, strengthen the business, he resolved to close all 336 outlets of the flagging Woolco discount chain (cutting the company-by 30%) and to sell Woolworth's British subsidiary...
...Democratic nomination, lives in a modest house in Queens and has strong appeal among his fellow Italian Americans, the state's biggest ethnic voting bloc. Cuomo is leading narrowly in all polls. By comparison, Political Novice Lew Lehrman, a wealthy Republican who transformed the family business into a discount-drug store empire, resides in a Fifth Avenue penthouse, spouts a political philosophy conservative to the letter, and is expected to spend upwards of $10 million pursuing the Governor's spot. Lehrman backs the death penalty, has accused Cuomo of being soft on crime, and campaigns on a program...
...Buena Park, Calif., police department. She says her investigators are less expensive than her competitors' because she hires inexperienced young people and trains them herself. Business has been so good that Short is opening a new branch in San Bernardino, Calif., and even has visions of franchising her discount detective agency...
...turns from new things that make survival easier. What the author wants is a balance that might preserve the Inuit spirit. The threat to that spirit is illustrated by an American businessman who asks an Eskimo carver to mass-produce an ivory figurine. Naturally, the American wants a volume discount. The native craftsman has a more natural idea. Turning to an interpreter, he says: "Tell this silly qallunaaq that the more of them I make alike, the more expensive it will be, because it will be more boring to make them!" -ByR.Z. Sheppard...