Word: discount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Working only a few hours a week to start. I had plenty of time left over to sun-bathe. Luckily, I could get a 10-per-cent employee's discount on my Super-Saver cocoa butter lotion. Not bad, I thought, until I realized that after taxes my pay would total less than $100 a week. Even with cheap cocoa butter lotion, you can't go very far on that...
...first day on the job, I shelled out 89 cents for a Super-Saver polyester tie. Damned if I was going to stain a real tie with discount spaghetti sauce. Next, I had to get trained. The manager assigned me to John, high-school dropout and expert on stock-boying. John, however, was reluctant to share his expertise, and I was forced to teach myself tricks such as keeping my thumb out of the way of the razor blade carton opener and making sure that all the cans of toilet bowl disinfectant had their labels facing the customers...
...says no, we would have to act swiftly and independently of Harvard University to provide the New York Times to students at the student discount," Theodore C. Tracy, the greater Boston circulation manager for the Times said, adding that "in the past the Times' hands have been tied by the Harvard administration...
Beanpot tickets will go on sale Monday morning, Jan. 19, for $7, $6 and $4 at the Harvard ticket office. Students get a $2 discount on the $7 and $6 tickets, and a $1 discount...
Jartran is now the fastest-growing rent-a-truck outfit in the history of the business. It has aggressively bought full-page ads in scores of newspapers and magazines, posted Jartran flyers in thousands of apartment buildings and mailed discount cards to graduating college seniors who would soon be moving their books, hi-fi sets and clothes. After some 17 months of operation, Jartran has more than 30,000 trucks and trailers and 2,200 independent dealers in the 48 mainland states. The waiting list for dealerships numbers 1,800. Though start-up costs have precluded any profits...