Word: discount
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...arrested in Las Vegas on federal charges of food-stamp trafficking. In Chicago, some 25 high-level dealers are under investigation. And in Baltimore last week, twelve people were arrested for trying to buy heroin with the coupons. In many cases, defendants are charged with purchasing stamps at a discount, whether from counterfeiters or suppliers with access to stockpiles at state-run issuing offices, then using them to buy just about anything but food. In the larger scams, dealers sell thousands of dollars worth of coupons directly to dishonest food-store owners, who act as food-stamp fences...
Other Members of Team: Bernard Barker, 64, retired last January from $18,512 job as building inspector in Miami after city investigators accused him of working fewer hours than he claimed. Virgilio R. Gonzalez, 56, master locksmith, runs general discount store in Miami with his wife. Eugenic Martinez, 60, heads leasing department of Miami Chevrolet dealer. James McCord, 63, electronics expert whose letter to Judge John Sirica began to unravel coverup, runs small solar-energy firm in Fort Collins, Colo. Frank Sturgis, 57, self-styled "Communist fighter," sells videotapes in Miami. Claims "Watergate financially destroyed me." Plotted bizarre attempt...
Planners admit that there will be some panic but discount its effect on emergency measures. "People panic when they don't know what is going to happen," Clahahan says, "but if they know what the plan is, they will usually carry...
Community activists charge, however, that Harvard plans to withhold vital statistics, and they also discount the sincerity and breadth of Harvard's overtures for reconciliation Michael Lambert, a prominent Mission Hill activist, said that Rosen's estimation of "good will" is "absolutely, positively not the case...
More will doubtless be attracted by an unusual spring gift catalogue that, in the style of Neiman-Marcus, offers such one-of-a-kind items as an endowed faculty chair (at a cost of $1 million). For a mere $10 million-with a 10% discount for cash-the Brown booster can even have the building housing the geology and chemistry departments named after him (no takers...