Word: discounted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pressure. The most striking examples, of course, are in the auto industry, which is now offering rebates of up to $2,000 on some cars to help move the vehicles off dealer lots. But businessmen of all sorts have begun pruning stocks. Stevan Buxbaum, who runs a Los Angeles discount clothing store called Ideal Fashions, reports that manufacturers are calling him from as far away as New York City and offering clothes at prices below wholesale just to move the garments out of their plants...
...that was going to be great.and the leading candidate was Marxism-Leninism. Stalin was an aberration, yet understand. We don't want to fall into the same trap; leftists coming of age in this era should only be looking for something better.in so doing we would he wise so discount Sontag's motion that communism is a monolith, pretty much the same wherever it rears its unchained head. As she herself eloquently proves, North Vietnamese communism circa 1968 is not the same as North Vietnamese communism criea 1980; certainly out of hand condemnations of the Sandinistas --increasingly a Leninist party...
Theatre Double Bill "The Lion in Winter" at Dunster House and "A Man for All Seasons" at Mather House are offering discount double tickets available at IICTO and at the door of each show...
...million to administer its credit-card accounts. Texaco, which has also been plagued by rising credit-card costs, last November started levying a 3% sales surcharge on dealers who accept the Texaco cards for payment. Exxon has launched tests in selected areas to see if a 40-per-gal. discount will reduce credit-card use. The company is now considering introducing the plan nationwide...
...most Americans, the Federal Reserve System, a mysterious world of money supply and discount rates, and the policies of its chairman, Paul Volcker, seem somewhat removed from everyday life. As TIME'S cover story this week makes clear, however, "Volckernomics," the Federal Reserve's anti-inflation policy, has resulted in unpredictable interest rates that affect everyone. Explaining the intricacies of monetary policy has been part of the job of Washington Correspondent David Beckwith, who helps report national economics for TIME. Says Beckwith: "Economics, Reaganomics and Volckernomics are to the early 1980s what Watergate was to the early 1970s...