Word: discount
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Moreover, Oppenheim suggests that because "there was a direct relationship between a school's percentage of black students and its social rating," Harvard should discount Black Enterprise's rankings altogether. Why, then, was Stanford, which has a 5 percent black population, ranked tenth in the same Black Enterprise survey? Evidently it's not because Stanford has more black students than Harvard, whose black population is 6 percent...
...biggest problem with most prospectuses is that most people don't read them, and those who do discount the "risk factors" as the overprotective drivel of some lawyer. How else to explain soaring Internet IPOs despite pages spelling out potentially fatal risks? Addressing this issue in his 1996 IPO of Berkshire Hathaway B shares, Warren Buffett in bold letters urged all to read the material and "ignore anyone telling you that these statements are boiler plate or unimportant." That's a start. But be ready to check further...
...always a mistake to completely discount a film, and Hard Core Logo is no exception. The acting of most of the primary players is often effective and is sometimes very compelling. The plot itself works for roughly half the film, and we are privy to some meaningful character insights on occasion. Furthermore, when in its satiric mode, Hard Core Logo does for 90s punk what Spinal Tap did for late 70s/early 80s rock...
Though it's hard to believe today, discount retailing was a controversial concept when it began to gain ground in the '50s at stores such as Ann & Hope, which opened in a reclaimed mill in Cumberland, R.I. Traditional retailers hated it, and so did manufacturers; it threatened their control of the marketplace. Most states had restrictions on the practice...
Walton was an active student of retailing--all family vacations included store visits--so by the time a barber named Herb Gibson from Berryville, Ark., began opening discount stores outside towns where Sam ran variety stores, Walton saw what was coming. On July 2, 1962, at the age of 44, he opened his first Wal-Mart store, in Rogers, Ark. That same year, S.S. Kresge launched K Mart, F.W. Woolworth started Woolco and Dayton Hudson began its Target chain. Discounting had hit America in a big way. At that time, Walton was too far off the beaten path to attract...