Word: discounter
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...result, HUHS discontinued the Student Dental Plan at the start of last spring. HUHS contacted several major dental insurers to develop a substitute, but companies declined to bid on a plan for Harvard students. Instead, HUHS offered students a discount package of $180 for an annual exam, x-ray, and cleaning, and 10 percent savings on treatment at the Holyoke Center...
...Strait. The stock trades for at least 30% less than its value by his "ultraconservative" appraisal. Then there's Liu Chong Hing Investments, which owns an exceptionally well-financed Hong Kong bank, as well as property in mainland China. The stock, listed in Hong Kong, trades at a 35% discount to its net-asset value. When you find something that cheap, says Wadhwaney, "you buy and buy and buy--and then you wait...
...year before. Former CEO Beth Pritchard built the chain from nothing to 1,600 stores and $1.8 billion in revenue in just 10 years, but consumers were growing tired of folksy fare like Juniper Breeze shampoo gift baskets and were starting to find palatable alternatives in drugstores and discount chains, which had begun an upscale lurch of their own. Fiske came in, began renovating stores from pine-grove country to white-walled mod (a few hundred stores left to go) and started introducing more-expensive products that didn't carry the Bath & Body Works logo. Same-store sales rebounded...
Yesterday, Farmer folded laundry, readying the few items he had scooped up at home or bought at an outlet mall—featuring a 20 percent discount for refugees—to bring today to Leverett House...
...payment was made, to monitor the oil-for-food program in Iraq. About the same time Wilson's wife bought a car from the Swiss dealer, Kojo Annan wound up paying $39,000 for his Mercedes, getting $15,000 in help from his dad plus a $6,000 "diplomatic" discount by falsely claiming that his father was the car's owner. He later shipped the vehicle to his native Ghana, again using his father's diplomatic status to avoid paying $14,000 in customs duties...