Word: discounted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...National Association of College Stores (NACS) alleges that these publishers engage in "dual pricing," offering better discount rates for independent booksellers than for college bookstores, violating antitrust...
Since last December, NACS's legal counsel, Arent, Fox, Kinter, Plotkin & Kahn, has collected nearly 80 complaints from more than 50 stores, which show that publishers offer a 40 percent discount rate to independent book stores and only 20 percent to college stores...
...hard to avoid such accoutrements of the '90s as logo-design consultants, glossy blue press packets and focus groups that mall-test key words to see which ones grab people's attention. Deaver's p.r. firm, Edelman Public Relations Worldwide, is billing its services at a 20% discount; Deaver is donating his. Powell is not going to put up with the kind of waste made notorious by charity balls and the United Way scandal, in which money was spent to raise more money and lavished on salary and perks. The two founding partners, the Points of Light Foundation...
...cover the annual deficit at its faculty club, which in past years has reached $700,000, and contributes toward the average $121,000 in compensation that Penn pays its professors, including a tuition-reimbursement program that lets professors send their children to Penn or anywhere else at a steep discount equivalent to half of Penn's annual tuition...
...spokesperson for Iger denied this scenario. Eisner, in an interview with TIME, denied the reports of his involvement, calling them "totally and completely wrong." The Disney chief went on to praise Arledge and to discount any suggestion that ABC News is seriously troubled. "I wish the rest of our company were in as good shape as ABC News," said Eisner. Arledge, meanwhile, insists that no timetable has been set for his retirement. "I have a contract that goes well beyond the year 2000," he says. "Whether I'll be as active two years from...