Word: discounted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...revealed expurgated versions of my life, about term papers handed in late and the unchaperoned party, enough so that she wouldn't completely discount me as a dork sitting alone every Saturday night. We made it through adolescence without disaster and have entered a period when the perils of parenting have given way to the joys of it. And I've yet to tell her what I really did during the '70s. My own mother was fond of sighing deeply and saying, to explain anything I didn't like, "You'll understand when you have a child of your...
Kott is a powerful figure behind the scenes at JB Oxford & Co., a small discount brokerage with big pretensions whose parent company, JB Oxford Holdings, has become a darling of a group of online investors, to the point that many of them have bought stock in the brokerage company. Hundreds of messages about the company, based in Beverly Hills, California, have been posted in America Online's Motley Fool electronic forum, which has been prominent in boosting prices of a number of issues. Last year the company's stock opened at $1 a share and shot up to nearly...
Unlike its predecessor, JB Oxford & Co. would be a discount stockbroker--essentially a passive order taker for customers who wanted to save money on commissions...
Kott not only has ties to several major shareholders, but he has also helped launch the discount-brokerage business, restructured the company's debt and supervised advertising and marketing. Until a few months ago, he spent 50% to 60% of his time at JB Oxford's headquarters--in an office that was larger than Rubenstein's own digs. (Although Rubinstein points out, "I have the corner office...
...Robert B. Driver took over as general director of the Opera Company of Philadelphia five years ago, he began to woo young professionals. Presto!--a brand new event called the Puccini-tini, a martini-tasting bash. A Junior Guild, for people under 35, offers a package of dinners and discounts plus a chance to try out as a spear carrier in Aida. It may sound corny, but it works: in the 1990-91 season the Philadelphia had 3,099 subscribers; today the number is 7,190. The Seattle Opera takes a more radical approach, giving its young group members...