Word: discounted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Venezuela's integration with the outside world makes it all the more vulnerable to what is happening there. Faced with staggering new energy costs, Third World and East European countries are asking for Venezuelan oil on credit or at a discount. The more poverty grows in Latin America and the Caribbean, the more Venezuela must worry about illegal immigration, cross- border crime and political instability in the region. Should high prices trigger a full-scale recession in the U.S., there will be fewer buyers for Venezuelan exports, higher interest on outstanding debt and less American capital to help underwrite expansion...
...once insistently down-played the preference given to legacies and athletes, Harvard changed its tune when these preferences were useful as an excuse for its suspiciously low rates of Asian-American admissions. But now that the Department of Education has exonerated the College, Harvard officials are again attempting to discount the significance of legacy and athletic preferences...
...above and beyond these practical considerations lies the threat of government abuse of power. Even if we consider the Green Sweep incident an aberration, even if we ignore the rising clamor from targeted zones in other states such as Oregon, Missouri and Kentucky, we can hardly discount the potential for civil liberties violations...
...affiliation not only entitles undergraduate and graduate students to enter free, but also to a 10 percent discount on films, lectures, classes, concerts and purchases at the museum store...
Meanwhile, Lazarre-White and Co. were winning the battle on the ground, rushing for over 225 yards (if you discount sack yardage in rushing totals...