Word: discounted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will be hard to break. A Harris poll conducted after the Three Mile Island accident indicated that 57% of Frenchmen supported their government's nuclear program. Still, Giscard is taking no chances that people might forget the advantages of the atom. Last month he announced a 15% electricity discount to anyone living near a nuclear plant...
...HAND-LETTERED sign in the window of Varnery's General Store, downtown Farmingon, reads: "Announcing! Senior Citizen's Discount Day. 10% Discount on all purchases, Wednesday Only. BEER & Cigarettes Excluded...
...apiece, as compared with $2.20 for a Kalashnikov round. But Dara's craftsmen will produce any weapon requested. A man polishing the barrel of a Sten gun told me: 'We will do all we can to help the Afghan people. At our factory, all mujahidin receive a 20% discount...
...Federal Reserve provides its members with various services, such as check clearing, wire transfer of funds and even emergency delivery of $5 bills. Members can also borrow money at the Fed's "discount window," but the price is high in terms of idle reserves. The fact that some big commercial banks offer many of the other services at a modest fee is encouraging smaller banks to forgo access to the discount window and leave the system. When Chicago's Oak Park Trust & Savings Bank withdrew its $9 million reserves from the system last May, its earnings rose...