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Word: discounts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...store points out that your membership rebate has been rising steadily for the past 10 years--about .1 percent a year to a whopping 9.9 percent last year. What the sign fails to point out is that a little comparison shopping around the square will get you that same discount or better, and you don't have to lend your money to the Coop for a year at no interest for the priveleage...

Author: By John Ross, | Title: The Uncooperative Coop | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...course, the Coop does provide some special services like selling obscure textbooks for classes ranging from semiotics to sanskrit and custom Lesley College notebooks, but why aren't these services provided at a real discount? That is the point of a cooperative society, anyway, and other stores seem to be able to sell at lower prices than the Coop and still make a profit...

Author: By John Ross, | Title: The Uncooperative Coop | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...addition to the Macintosh, the Technology Product Center also sells computers at discount prices from IBM and DEC, and is currently offering a series of seven seminars designed for novice computer users, according to Towler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Cuts Prices Of Macintosh by $300 | 3/6/1985 | See Source »

...Figaro: OVER 10 FRANCS, THE DOLLAR HAS GONE THROUGH THE CEILING. One edition of the Socialist tabloid Le Matin included a replica of a $1 bill. By buying a copy for the newsstand price of 4 francs, the newspaper proclaimed, readers could get a "dollar" at a 60% discount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dollar As King Currency | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...Many discounters offer investors who own personal computers a chance to buy and sell stocks electronically without having to talk with a broker. All these investors have to do is connect their machines to a telephone and call in to the discount firm's computer. Then they can type instructions for trades on their keyboards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bull and Bear Brawl | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

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