Word: discounter
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...artificial hip was slowing her. She never complained about getting old. At parties she would plant herself on a chair and let the room come to her. She kept in touch by going to the movies, even the bad ones, and she'd always ask for the senior discount...
...give you an example, my father, who is on Medicare, and I walk into the same drugstore and buy the same prescription. The retail price of the drug is $100. My father will have to pay $100 because Medicare doesn't cover prescription drugs. But I get a volume discount in the federal plan, which will bring my retail price down to $70. And because I have insurance, I have a copayment of 50%. So the price is now down to $35. We want to give seniors that type of benefit...
...artificial hip was slowing her. She never complained about getting old. At parties she would plant herself on a chair and let the room come to her. She kept in touch by going to the movies, even the bad ones, and she'd always ask for the senior discount...
...keep their rejoicing to a minimum, however. While the law provides landowners with financial recourse if the government's acquisition of their property somehow deprives them of income, the majority ruled this was not the case here. As is fairly typical of this Court, the Justices were eager to discount broader implications of their ruling, concentrating instead on the individual case. Here the Court ruled against Anthony Palazzolo, arguing that since he was permitted to build a "substantial" house on his land, he did not lose significant income. In the majority opinion, Justice Kennedy wrote, "Palazzolo failed to establish...
...year ago, is exactly what happened to Warnaco. In that case, settled earlier this year as a hungry New York City press corps waited for the trial to begin, Klein tried to recapture his license, claiming that Wachner was destroying his jeans brand, skimping on quality and flooding the discount bins at merchandise clubs. Of course, Klein didn't seem to have any such complaints until he had trouble finding a buyer--including negotiating with Warnaco--for his suddenly unfashionable company. Warnaco, in its view, was simply responding to market forces, as more consumers continued to bypass department stores...