Word: discounter
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...against "trash TV" - the game and variety shows featuring scantily clad dancers that make up much of the prime-time schedule - a Milan viewers' association launched a three-day nationwide television strike. To encourage Italians to get up off their sofas, venues including museums, theaters and restaurants offered a discount to anyone turning up with a TV remote control. Organizers were hoping that up to 400,000 people would participate, but conceded that it might be difficult to persuade some - mostly male - viewers away from the weekend's football matches...
Perhaps. Beginning in 2004, senior citizens will be able to buy a Medicare-subsidized prescription-drug discount card for about $30 a year. Although the Department of Health and Human Services estimates that the card will save the elderly perhaps as much as 25% when they buy prescription drugs, the General Accounting Office maintains that the savings will probably be closer to 10%. Furthermore, outside analysts believe that seniors will be able to save just as much by shopping around on their own rather than locking themselves in to a drug card...
Geoffrey may seem like an extravagant, larky enterprise dreamed up by Willy Wonka, but Toys "R" Us badly needs it to work if the firm is to break out of its deep slump. Wal-Mart and other big discount chains like Target have eroded the company's sales in recent years, and now it looks as if Wal-Mart is circling for the kill, escalating a price war that may eat up whatever profit margin Toys "R" Us has left. Despite rising consumer confidence and blistering U.S. economic growth of 8.2% in the third quarter, analysts expect sales at Toys...
...Worse could follow if the judgment leads to court actions over Ryanair's deals in France and elsewhere. That outcome would be sweet revenge for Europe's battered traditional carriers like Air France and British Airways, who have seen their own businesses eaten away by the discounters. And if O'Leary's charge that Charleroi offered rivals Virgin Express and easyJet similar deals was an appeal for low-cost solidarity, the two airlines were having none of it. Both concentrate on major airports in major cities where the pickings are not so sweet, though O'Leary predicted that the deal...
...that's left of that heyday are 62 slag heaps. Even covered in grass, they're not what you'd call a tourist attraction. Yet approximately 2 million people a year come to this forgettable place - thanks to a revolution in Europe's airline industry. In 2000, Irish discount flyer Ryanair agreed to make an international hub of Charleroi's airport, when the town shaved standard landing charges from €7 to €1 per passenger and provided money for training and marketing. Though few visitors linger long before flying elsewhere or taking the 46-km bus trip north...