Word: discount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the cost of money high, business conditions have begun to deteriorate, and hardest hit are the smaller firms. Unlike large corporations, which can pass on mounting overhead expenses by raising prices or turn to friendly banks for loans at a discount from the prime rate whenever they need a few million in cash, smaller firms have no such opportunities. Even in the best of times, many of them exist on a shoestring of high debts, thin profits and volatile markets...
...little as a few cents a month, the data banks are using computer technology and telephone lines to provide household subscribers with the opportunity to summon up-to-the-minute information on everything from the action on Wall Street to the best shopping bargains available from brand-name discount houses around the country...
Tickets for the most talked-about Broadway show of the year, "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby," are available to Harvard students at a substantial discount...
...discount tickets can be purchased by taking a check to the receptionist at the Loeb theater. Students will have to make their own arrangements to get to New York to see the play...
...carpet covers the grease stains. While the walls are still lined with tires, fan belts and hub caps, the steel hoists once used to lift cars now support jeans, sweaters, shirts and skirts bearing 20 different designer labels, including Bill Blass, Calvin Klein and Sasson. The gas is discount: $1.26 per gal. So are the threads: $29.99 for a pair of Diane Von Furstenberg jeans, compared with $41 at a San Jose department store...