Word: discounted
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Moving from opinions to activity, the results discount some of the popular conceptions of student apathy. Although Harvard students in the Class of '84 do not express their concerns about the world in the dramatic ways that their counter-parts in the Class of '69 did, the poll suggests that students today do act on their moral and political concerns, but in more traditional ways...
...Spartan school looks luxurious compared with the St. Lucia School of Medicine, opened with great fanfare last September by Edward Antar, owner of a New York discount electronics chain called Crazy Eddie's. "They had nothing," says Cornelius Lubin, an official in St. Lucia's Ministry of Health. "No labs, no cadavers." The school quietly closed in March. Closed less quietly was the Centre de Investigacion y Formacion Social. CIFAS was one of two Dominican medical schools shut down in May as part of the local government's effort to clear the rep utation of its university...
Opponents of further deregulation are moving quickly to the attack. Among them is Rhode Island Democrat Fernand St Germain, chairman of the House Banking Committee, who last week introduced a bill that would force commercial banks to sell their discount stock brokerage subsidiaries. Said St Germain of Continental's brush with failure...
...people are retiring the old set to the guest room and getting one of the new-generation machines. Last year consumers bought an estimated 14 million color TVs, and the pace of sales jumped another 26% in the first quarter of this year. Videomania is bringing a windfall to discount retailers like Lenny Mattioli, who sell equipment for as much as 25% less than department stores or specialty shops. Mattioli's American T.V. stores have increased sales from $900,000 in 1970 to an estimated $160 million this year. Says the self-described Crazy T.V. Lenny, whose main store...
...last week reaffirmed its earlier decision that AT&T's competitors had to pay only 55% as much as AT&T to link up with local telephone networks. This means that the smaller companies should be able to continue charging lower prices than AT&T. Because of their discount rates, MCI and GTE are currently enjoying booming business. Two weeks ago, GTE announced that because the firm had such a rush of orders, it had to stop taking new customers in some parts of the country...