Word: discount
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...legal debate this fall will center in part on similar questions: whether the DOJ's remedies would actually prevent consumer harm, as opposed to merely promoting one company's fortunes at another's expense. Asked whether the PC vendor Packard Bell would want to buy Windows at a discount if it didn't include Explorer, a spokeswoman was skeptical. "Would customers want to pay less for a computer without an integrated browser," she mused, "or do they prefer to have an integrated, simple way to surf the Internet?" Microsoft dependents always speak carefully in public, but her implication is clear...
...special deals abound for those who are willing to lower their sights. Even though the base rate at Singapore's Hotel Phoenix is about $160 a night, marketing director Low admits that she "is happy to let you stay for $87 a night." Many hotels are spicing up the discount deal with a slew of extras, from free clothes pressing to complimentary limousine transport and free breakfast. Hong Kong's Conrad Hotel, for instance, is offering a standard room, with all those freebies and more, starting at about $315 a night (that's down from nearly $900 in January). Both...
...Canadian Auto Workers. Ultimately it will be up to I.G. Metall, the union that represents German autoworkers, whether the Americans and Canadians get seats on the board. Pending that, most workers seemed pleased. "I just hope my stock goes up and I can buy a Mercedes with my Chrysler discount," laughed an employee from Chrysler's Jefferson North assembly plant, on Detroit's gritty east side...
SNAKE EYES (Aug. 7). Since his Oscar turn in Leaving Las Vegas, all Nicolas Cage has done is star in three action films that each topped the $100 million mark and, for a romantic change of pace, made audiences believe in angels. So don't discount this Brian De Palma crime thriller...
Ward said she "definitely" has Olympic dreamsand will take her first step toward pursuing themthis summer, at the under-23 national team camp.Yee and Wallison plan to room together next yearin Manhattan, and would not discount thepossibility of playing club Rugby there...