Word: discounter
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Although policy wonks may debate the merits of discount doctoring, investors are jumping at the idea. MinuteClinic had 20 outlets up and running in two states last September. It now has 73 in nine states, and by the end of the year will have some 300 in 17 states. Pennsylvania-based Take Care Health Systems, co-founded by customer-service guru Hal Rosenbluth, who in 2003 sold his eponymous travel company to American Express for about $300 million, has 19 clinics in Oregon and Kansas and plans to match MinuteClinic's numbers by next year. Take Care just...
...billion cut is the NuSTAR satellite, which would have used x-ray detection to find black holes, galactic nuclei and supernovae; the Terrestrial Planet Finder, which, as its name suggests, would hunt for Earth-like planets around other stars; and a welter of small craft known as the Explorers-discount ships designed mostly by university groups and launched in cooperation with NASA. Narrowly focused and cheap to fly, they have in the past paid big scientific dividends on very little investment...
...Unwed by MaryJanice Davidson, a former model uses her can't-be-killed status to scare the bejesus out of her stepmother, who did a postmortem heist of all her Manolo Blahniks (a shoe brand that pops up in these books a lot; the designer must offer a specter discount). It ends happily for our heroine, although these books are not the kind that necessarily conclude with a wedding. It's probably safer that way, given that for vampires, "till death do us part" is the kind of promise that could come back to bite...
...sharing. But illegal downloads are double the rate of legal ones in France, Sweden and Spain. And any technology as disruptive as digital music is bound to create some friction. Several labels, including EMI, want more flexible pricing online - oldies and tracks by emerging artists might sell at a discount, while big hits by established acts might be premium-priced. Apple, however, is reluctant to mess with what it sees as a winning formula. But Levy tells Time: "I don't know of any product that has only one price, or that has only one perceived value to the consumer...
...fact, I will ignore hockey entirely, so that I can conveniently discount both of Harvard’s oft-ranked and consistently competitive teams...