Word: discounts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...steady stream of students scooped up tastes of Meyers' popcorn from a large bag. They also bought 50-cent bags to take back to their dormitory rooms at a special discount price of a dime. Rock music blared from speakers as a local radio station, WBCN, broadcast live...
Many of the conditions that fostered the rise of the discount carriers no longer prevail. Right after deregulation, the major airlines were at a serious disadvantage: during the time they were protected by the Government from competition, they had become high-cost, unionized operations. In the previous 40 years, the old Civil Aeronautics Board had received 79 applications from companies that wanted to become long-distance, interstate airlines; not one was approved. When competition was opened up in 1978, the fleet of new carriers generally employed relatively cheap nonunion labor and used smaller crews on their aircraft than established airlines...
...fact, two Harvard Square tanning salons are packing enough ultraviolet radiation to keep undergraduates bronzed and gleaming all winter long. Body Bronze (formerly the Harvard Tanning Club) and Tanorama compete for student business, offering free trial sessions, discount rates, and other spa-like amenities to draw in customers...
...terms of music in the suite, however, students who don't want to plunk down substantial amounts of cash for a stereo invest in a boom box rather than oversize speakers for a walkman. Discount Records, on John F. Kennedy St., sells 10 to 15 walkman speaker sets a week versus 20 boom boxes. And walkman speakers are becoming more popular, says Patrick S. Pezzati, the store's assistant manager...
Many professional traders were mystified by the timing of last week's sell- * off. Said Michael D. Smith, senior vice president of institutional sales at B.C. Christopher Securities in Kansas City: "Nobody knows what's going on. Why did they discount American business 4.6% yesterday...