Word: discounting
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Hoping to reap profits from highspending college students, a young local entrepreneur has launched a national student discount program...
...discount the seven guards' complaints is to charge them all with being conspiratorial liars out to destroy the reputations of Donald P. Behenna (a security supervisor) and Robert J. Dowling (manager of operations for security and Behenna's boss and friend), who bear the brunt of the charges. But the University has admitted that Behenna underwent "retraining" of an unspecified nature shortly after this paper reported the complaints against him. Regardless of whether or not these specific charges are true, they deserve a fuller hearing...
...writers could eat in or take out from the restaurant for a discount, says Cafe of India manager Jagdish Singh. And in return, says Ahmad, "we provided steady business throughout the summer...
...phrase sounds like the name of a discount center in the suburbs. In a sense, that is what it means -- the concept is an American warehouse of moral images, of inherited assumptions and brand-name ideals, of traditional wisdom, of pseudo memories of a golden age, of old class habits: here some of the culture's finest aspirations are on display, its handcrafted, polished virtues and a few handsome, valuable antiques. But also a lot of shoulder pads, Tic Tacs and mouthwash...
Phar-Mor, the largest and fastest-growing U.S. deep discount drugstore chain -- with 306 stores in 33 states -- sought bankruptcy court protection after firing president Michael Monus and chief financial officer Patrick Finn and taking a $350 million write-off. The company claimed that Monus and Finn embezzled $10 million and overstated profits, then sued its accountants, Coopers & Lybrand, for failing to spot the fraud. Coopers countersued, accusing Phar-Mor executives of providing false and misleading figures to audit...