Word: discounter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DISCOUNT RATE will not be cut in immediate future despite flurry of rumors to contrary...
...Crazy, man!"; "Everything drags me now"). A kind of urban waif in the asphalt jungle, he regularly tastes despair, or what Kerouac calls "the pit and prunejuice of poor beat life itself in the god-awful streets of man." Sometimes he "flips," i.e., goes mad. Allen Ginsberg, 32, the discount-house Whitman of the Beat Generation, begins his dithyrambic poem Howl (which the New York Times's Critic J. Donald Adams has suggested should be retitled Bleat) with the lines: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro...
...neighbors did laugh every now and then, though, I must report that a distinguished Harvard classics scholar considers the following repartee inspired: "Did you know that a single alligator can lay ninety-seven eggs in a year?" "Well! Imagine what a married one could do." If we discount the grunts of various reptiles, this, sadly enough, may be the best line in the film...
...must also discuss several agencies which are now tentatively being formed. A Sampler Agency plans to sell discount coupons in the fall, and the possibility of an HSA Calendar, an HSA Photo Agency, and a newspaper agency are also being considered...
...economy that has so far seen few breaks in prices, one commodity became cheaper last week: money. Following the drop in the Federal Reserve discount rate fortnight ago, major U.S. banks cut their prime rates-those for the biggest borrowers with the best credit-½% to 3½%, the second bankers' cut in the five months in which the Federal discount rate has dropped from 3½% to 1¾%. Other forms of short-term commercial paper, such as 30-to-90-day notes, also dropped ¼% to 1¼%. But for small borrowers and for consumers buying...