Word: discounter
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Morgan charges the cover price for her books, while the big boxes often discount, but she carries hundreds of titles they don't stock. Being nimble and able to respond rapidly to local trends also fattens her bottom line. After noticing that Minneapolis' Somali-American community was booming, she started purchasing books written in Somali with English translations. When she discovered that local schools were ramping up French classes, she stocked more French-English titles...
...year, as the European company won a massive order for 120 A319 jets from easyJet. Analysts fear that Airbus slashed prices dangerously low to entice easyJet, but the deal should help the company avoid the massive job cuts plaguing Boeing while providing its first access to Europe's coveted discount-airline market. Meeting Of The Minds Imperial College London must have expected big things when they made Richard Sykes a rector. As CEO of Glaxo Wellcome, he helped create the world's second-largest drug company by merging with SmithKline Beecham. His follow-up? Last week he announced plans...
...cost out of pocket, he said, was "outrageous" at $3,000 to $5,000. So Morton and his fellow deputies lobbied their union, which came up with an alternative. The union contracted with two doctors, one in Irvine, Calif., and one in Tijuana, both of which offered the deputies discounted rates. But the Tijuana discount was far steeper: $1,000 for the surgery, as opposed to $2,000 in Irvine. The union was impressed with the Mexican doctor's references, and Morton, who drove down to inspect the modern Tijuana facilities, was impressed on both counts. "They treat you like...
...prone to rants like accusing the fbi of planting evidence. In June prosecutors declined to pursue charges against Torricelli but referred the matter to the Senate Ethics Committee. It dismissed many of Chang's claims, accepted others and "severely admonished" Torricelli for, among other things, receiving a discount on a 52-inch TV. When Torricelli insisted that he never saw Chang's largesse as violating Senate rules, he seemed arrogant. Torricelli wasn't helped last week when a federal court released a letter from prosecutors requesting leniency for Chang. The letter repeatedly acknowledged Chang's problems with truth but said...
...high unemployment, flagging retail sales and chronic deflation, is suffering another blow: an influx of money too ugly to spend. The territory's monetary authority last month released into circulation a revamped $10 bill that, instead of inspiring confidence in the territory's financial underpinnings, reminds people of a discount coupon for laundry detergent. "It looks juvenile," says local merchant Jeremy Chia of the garish pink and purple banknote. Part of the problem is the inclusion of numerous anti-counterfeiting features, including embossed text and a watermarked bauhinia flower. "The abundance of security features may not be appropriate," admitted monetary...