Word: discounted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most Wall Streeters dreaded the change, correctly predicting a rash of mergers among brokers and drastically altered ways of doing business in the securities markets. But Schwab, now 44, embraced negotiated rates. He began offering clients deep commission discounts on securities transactions, sometimes slashing them to only 30% or 40% of their former levels. Schwab quickly became the largest discount broker in the U.S., with offices in 40 cities, 600 employees and 220,000 clients. For its fiscal year ending last September, the firm had revenues of $42 million and profits of $5 million...
...instead of the discount close out sales one might expect the store to be holding, signs indicate increases on many products. Including rolling papers A clerk at the affiliated Liberty Tree shop in Central Square says the increasing cost of Paper makes wholesale and retail prices go up. and he adds. "Don't be surprised to see E-Z [currently $7.50] going for $30 a box after the law takes effect. As local competition decreases with each store that closes, prices can be driven higher and higher, and copies of the law clearly showing the date it takes effect...
...firm has prospered by building the supermarkets of toys. Each of its 120 outlets looks exactly like every other and carries the same 18,000 discount-priced items. The company's stores and its tall, distinctive signs are always set directly alongside well-traveled highways, near shopping centers or malls. Customers entering the stores are apt to be staggered by the biggest display of toys outside the North Pole: 138 different bicycle models, for example, and 160 dolls displayed in five 12-ft.-high cases...
...carriers have tried, without success, to curb no-shows before, but they are trying again. Next week the airlines are scheduled to meet in Washington to discuss new methods of fighting the problem. Air Florida is expected to propose offering travelers a 20% discount on nonrefundable tickets bought up to seven days before a flight. New York Air is likely to suggest charging no-shows $20 by deducting that amount from their credit cards. No-shows who pay by cash or check would not receive full refunds...
...great difficulty with all exaggerations is that while most of the audience may understand that excess and embellishment are in the air, and may automatically do a mental calculation discounting the rhetoric, the fact is that different auditors discount at different rates. It is often difficult to know just how much exaggeration is involved, and how much truth. If Iranians pumping their fists in the air describe the U. S. the "Great Satan," how much of that is homicidal hostility, how much is merely Persian literary style...