Word: discount
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...China" principle, China has been flooding pro-Beijing papers in Hong Kong with scare stories, as well as filling the skies over the Taiwan Strait with warplanes, in part to send a message to Taiwan's voters who will choose Lee's successor next year. The experts don't discount the risk that this psychological warfare could by accident erupt into the real thing, but figure Beijing has too much at stake right now, including an upcoming Clinton-Jiang meeting and a long-sought deal to get into the World Trade Organization. Moreover, an international outcry over use of force...
...also absorbed the lesson that it's possible to serve the public and oneself at the same time. In TV spots last winter, households interested in purchasing discount fuel from Citizens Energy were asked to call a toll-free number that just happened to be 877-JOE-4-OIL. Maybe he's not entirely out of politics...
After one year in the Square, discount theater ticket seller Bostix has vacated its Holyoke Center home and been replaced by a new Office for the Arts at Harvard and Radcliffe ticket booth...
After one year in the Square, discount theater ticket seller BosTix has vacated its Holyoke Center home and been replaced by a new Office for the Arts at Harvard and Radcliffe ticket booth...
Here's the pitch: capitalism thrives on the reduction of friction, and the Web is the most effective friction reducer since the assembly line. The dot-com revolution hit first for consumers; as soon as Amazon, for instance, put millions of discount books within buying reach of anyone with a modem and a credit card, ordinary bookstores had to change or die. "E-markets have had a very significant impact," says Tim Minahan, an e-commerce analyst for the Aberdeen Group. "And you're going to see that on the business side as well...