Word: discounter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shop. Choosing products to splash on its home page isn't like stocking razor blades by the check-out. "This is where it's behind the learning curve," Cooperstein says, "but it will learn." And before long, it may be time to dig into that souffle. Priced at a discount, of course...
...incentive to take the job despite its clear endpoint, Express employees are given a significant discount on store merchandise. It's always an attractive benefit, but even more so with the prospect of Christmas shopping looming...
Amazon.com has a 50 percent discount on the three Harry Potter books, which hover at the top of its "100 Hot Books" list. Barnes and Noble has deducted 30 percent from the cover price, which is the store's policy for books on The New York Times bestseller list...
...another impotence wonder drug. Rather, a viatical (from the Latin viaticum, a payment given to Roman officials before embarking on a journey) is a way for a terminally ill or elderly person (the viator) to get money before he dies by selling his life-insurance policy at a discount. The discount, usually 10% to 40% of the policy's face value, is based on the viator's life expectancy; once the viator dies and a broker takes a commission, the investor collects the rest of the benefits. A decade ago, viaticals were embraced by the AIDS community as an ingenious...
...after Thanksgiving, lead with the (mostly) good news: We're still flush. The evidence is both statistical (personal income rose 1.3 percent in October, the biggest monthly jump in nearly five years) and anecdotal (thousands nationwide lined up as early as Thursday nightto be first in line at discount stores Friday morning for all those $45 VCRs and $99 TVs). Confronted with surging stock markets, shrinking unemployment and virtually nonexistent inflation, retailers - and e-tailers - could be forgiven for feeling especially confident that in the next five weeks they will surpass even last year's whopping $170 billion in sales...