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...Harvard Computer Society. According to current president Josh. A. Kroll ’09, the club was formed in 1983 as a response to student demand. “One of the club’s early duties was as a collective for purchasing computer hardware at a discount,” Kroll wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson...
...Saudi struggled to pay off its (large) chunk of the bill for the first Gulf War. At the height of the Asian financial crisis in 1998, oil prices had fallen to just $12 a barrel. This meant that Saudi Arabia - which sells its precious black gold at a discount, on average - was getting just $7 a barrel. Deficit financing was the only solution, and the government started borrowing at home and abroad. By 1999, Saudi Arabia's government debt was bigger than its economy. And then came 9/11, which drove the final nails into the coffin of the country...
...Salutes. The all-inclusive Holiday Inn SunSpree Resort in Montego Bay, Jamaica, is offering a 55% discount to all active-duty and retired U.S. military service members. Book your trip with promotional code 155MIL and stay...
...matter of time before banks started to rise. Also, many investors have been so focused on the short term - all the recent steps taken by the Federal Reserve and the Treasury - that they have forgotten that the bank assist started in August of 2007 when the Fed cut the discount rate and opened the lending window to a wider list of financial companies. So this has been going on for a little less than two years. Typically when you see that type of extended intervention, and such an enormous amount of money being thrown at the problem, it's only...
...Benefits of Youth. College grads, treat yourself to a cheap present: The discount student travel agency STA Travel is celebrating 30 years of business, offering travelers a chance to score $30 round-trip tickets to London or Paris. The first 20 customers to visit their local STA Travel branch or call 800-360-9273 on Wednesday, May 20, can get a ticket to London or Paris, departing from New York City, Boston, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco or Seattle. As with any good deal, there are caveats: You must be under 26 or a currently enrolled student to qualify...