Word: discounted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reclining in his leather office chair and saying to himself, "I worked so hard for those B+'s way back when." Those of us who took the SAT before it was "recentered" know the feeling well. How often have we heard someone's score of 1600 only to discount it with, "Well, when I took the SAT, you had to get them all right to get a 1600!" No one likes to see their accomplishments cheapened after the fact...
After Natividad's opening address Friday evening, conference goers will receive a special discount for admission to the annual Valentine's Day Dance and Fashion Show--held at the Park Plaza Castle in Boston...
...council will sell 71 monthly MBTA T passes at an 11 percent discount in an effort to help graduate students who live off-campus...
...pioneer in elevating the everyday. In 1970 he created evening wear out of materials like sweatshirt fabric and denim, an aesthetic later executed far less tastefully, albeit to greater splash, by Gianni Versace. Today Beene often buys shoes for his fashion shows along one of Manhattan's seedier discount shopping blocks. "There are jewels," he enthuses, "everywhere...
This complex chemistry of means, needs and expectations makes for some contradictory behavior. This Christmas, high-end stores and discount outlets are having the best season: stores in the middle are struggling. It seems that most consumers are engaged in a constant, personalized cost-benefit analysis. If they feel they got a good enough bargain at the Price Club on toilet paper or dog food, they allow themselves the Starbucks confection that costs four times as much as a regular cup of coffee...