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...rankings tell people what the best values are. The schools that rank highly tend to have a significant discount,’’ said Richard Folkers, director of media relations for U.S. News & World Report...

Author: By Romina Garber, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Report Says Harvard Education Third in Value | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...prone to rants like accusing the fbi of planting evidence. In June prosecutors declined to pursue charges against Torricelli but referred the matter to the Senate Ethics Committee. It dismissed many of Chang's claims, accepted others and "severely admonished" Torricelli for, among other things, receiving a discount on a 52-inch TV. When Torricelli insisted that he never saw Chang's largesse as violating Senate rules, he seemed arrogant. Torricelli wasn't helped last week when a federal court released a letter from prosecutors requesting leniency for Chang. The letter repeatedly acknowledged Chang's problems with truth but said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Jersey Senate: Does Scandal Really Matter? | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...program was greeted enthusiastically when first launched. In recent years, though, the savings over other textbook sellers had decreased and competition from other discount textbook websites, such as varsitybooks.com and ecampus.com, had increased...

Author: By Nathaniel A. Smith, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Council Discontinues UC Books Website | 9/25/2002 | See Source »

Large merchants as well as individuals who sell via online auction giant eBay often refuse to ship goods to Indonesia, Romania and Ukraine. Buy.com has completely overhauled its overseas-shipping practices. Citing fraud, the discount e-tailer last year closed its export operations run from offices in Britain, Canada and Australia and instead built a more secure export system run through its shipping partner in Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: E-Commerce: When You Absolutely, Positively Don't Want It Stolen | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

...long. At 29 he became the youngest top executive in company history, and now Turner, 37, has been assigned to turn around Sam's Club, Wal-Mart's lagging membership-warehouse chain. Sam's profits rose just 3% last quarter, in contrast to 17% at Wal-Mart's main discount stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People to Watch in International Business | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

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