Word: discounted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with a list of every matching book in its database. Choose your title, type in your address and credit-card number, and service reps at Amazon.com's Seattle warehouse will find your order and mail it to you, usually within one or two days, and often at a hefty discount. Three years after launch, Amazon.com has 2.25 million worldwide customers, and sales that may reach $350 million this year...
...that line in the next couple of years. For some firms, the Net has become an essential competitive advantage. Dell, which sells $5 million worth of computers a day on its website, claims that the efficiencies of Web-based sales give it a 6% profit advantage over its competitors. Discount-mortgage broker American Finance and Investment, which conducts 60% of its business online, was profitable 90 days after plugging into the Net. And Eddie Bauer, the outdoor-clothing retailer, has an online operation that has been profitable since 1997 and is growing at 300% to 500% a year...
...family limited partnership effectively allows you to make a gift of assets at a discount of as much as 40% of their actual value, thus allowing you to give about $16,000 tax free per person per year--considerably more than the customary $10,000 limit. It works because the assets in a partnership, which has restrictions, are deemed less valuable than the same assets in an unrestricted account...
...Amount saved by the Queen's sister Princess Margaret by using a senior citizen's discount pass on a public train...
...presenters highlighted the numerous programs available to Cambridge residents over the age of 60, including taxi coupons, a shuttle service to medical appointments and grocery shopping, and discount fares...