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...annual versions of all of their plans, but the math didn?t add up for me. The 300-minute plan costs $569 if you pay for the year up front. Even with voicemail included, that?s over $50 more expensive than paying monthly. The annual plan includes a 20% discount on the phones, but I hardly think that?s worth...
...professionals call chronically ill employees regularly (unless they opt out) to offer advice on care and medication. SCANA provides drugs through an in-house pharmacy. "We then can buy drugs at a wholesale price," says Joe Bouknight, SCANA's human-resources director. "In 2007 that will represent a nice discount for us and our employees." If only that were true for the rest...
...kind of thing comes free of charge with every Mac,” Hadley said. A global facebook.com group called “Apple Students” boasts over 500,000 members and features images of the colorful iPods and other Mac accessories. Moriarty did say, however, that the discount levels the University gets on IBM Lenovos are higher than on Apples, so a combination of cost, software compatibility, and support issues still impact computer purchases at Harvard. “The distance between the discounts is still substantial,” Moriarty said...
...consumer end of the food chain, emerging markets are seeing the spread of new self-service stores, including supermarkets, hypermarkets and discount and club stores, as well as chain convenience stores. Through highly efficient procurement and distribution systems, modern chain stores have made significant inroads into traditional markets by offering greater variety, lower prices, better quality and more convenience to populations that are increasingly urbanized and time-stretched. By purchasing fresh fruits and vegetables directly from farmers, supermarkets have also been influential in reorganizing agriculture away from small family holdings toward larger, better organized and more mechanized farms capable...
...failure as progressives to tap into the moral underpinnings of the nation is not just rhetorical, though. Our fear of getting "preachy" may also lead us to discount the role that values and culture play in addressing some of our most urgent social problems...