Word: discounter
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...exactly what this two-stringed fiddle sounds like in person. The program, straight out of Beijing, includes guest vocalists and ensembles in what promises to be the most sublime traditional Chinese music presentation you’ll see at Harvard. Tickets $40, $30 and $27 with a $5 discount for Harvard staff and students; $10 rush tickets may be available after 6 p.m. the day of the concert. Harvard Box Office (617) 496-2222. 7 p.m. Sanders Theatre...
...Ocean is not so far removed from the time of slavery, and Aunt Ester surely remembers. Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 2 p.m., 8 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 7:30 pm. Through Oct. 30. Tickets $14-$67, $5 student discount. The Huntington Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave. Boston...
...Russia's Discount Sale Now begins the endgame for Yukos, Russia's biggest oil producer. One year after authorities arrested founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Kremlin is seeking to recoup at least $4 billion in taxes by forcibly selling the firm's main asset, Yuganskneftegaz, which controls vast Siberian oil fields. The subsidiary, which pumps 1 million bbl. of oil per day - about 60% of Yukos' output - has been valued by Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein at between $14.7 and $17.3 billion. Reports last week suggested the Kremlin might hand it to a Russian rival, Gazprom, for a fraction of that price...
...emptying the racks at designer boutiques. According to one local merchant, the sisters are looking to sell some of their bling, too. He says he was offered jewelry last year, including a $500,000 diamond necklace that "no Jordanian would ever buy," though it was available at a steep discount. "Iraqis are keeping a lot of us in business these days," says another jeweler. The second wave of Iraqis can't afford such extravagances. They're buying cheaper apartments or simply renting. "They don't have the same kind of money," says one real-estate agent. The newcomers tend...
...haven’t planning and operations already been integrated? Two reasons. First, inertia. Harvard is extremely decentralized, and changing this behemoth is tough. Lacking another motivation like environmental stewardship, little has changed. And second, the up-front costs. Economists now recognize that people often irrationally discount the future; the University behaves similarly, choosing small cost reductions now over large cost savings in the future. The sustainability principles are an attempt to behave rationally—for the University to incorporate into its planning “life-cycle costing,” which simply means considering all the discounted...