Word: discounted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very bad decision in terms of academia," Brian P. Murphy, associate director for operations at Harvard University Press, said, adding that many publishers are destroying their books or selling them to discount outlets. University Press is not affected by the ruling because of its non-profit status...
Epps said a student organization must deliver the Globe and the Times to insure discount prices for the papers. He added that other student organizations have refused to take the responsibility in the past...
...Labor statistics that food prices in the U.S. rose 1.7% in August, the highest increase in 2½ years. Although fuel costs did not increase at all in August, the Consumer Price Index jumped 0.7%. The Federal Reserve moved late in the week to attack inflation by raising the discount rate, the fee it charges on loans to member banks, from 10% to 11%. In response, banks began pushing up the prune rate...
...paying the museum $7500 per year for a college-wide discount membership...
...overreaction? Perhaps; but last year a Detroit jury found Voikos' story so convincing that it ordered the discount chain to pay her $100,000. The hefty compensation was unprecedented, but there is growing evidence that Voikos' ordeal was not. Lie detector tests, either to screen job applicants or to uncover theft by employees, have become big business: hundreds of thousands are given each year, and the number is rising steadily. But despite technical improvements in the equipment, the accuracy of the results is often open to question, and there are persistent reports of browbeating by examiners. One supermarket...