Word: discounts
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...speed up again early in 1985. Some reasons: consumers' incomes are still rising faster than prices, which increased at a comfortably modest annual rate of 4.2% in October, and interest rates are shading lower. The Federal Reserve tried last week to nudge that trend along by reducing the discount rate it charges on loans to member banks by a half point...
...Democrats knew they were going to lose. They had time to steel themselves, to discount the loss and change the subject to 1988. Nevertheless, when the digital displays started flicking on Tuesday evening and the vote totals appeared, the thud of defeat was at last palpable. The party has now lost four of the past five presidential elections. It is being deserted by the nation's middle class and, perhaps even worse, by the young. One Democratic strategist, a key figure in the past four presidential campaigns, seemed almost excited by his own gloominess. "This party...
Tickets can be purchased by bringing a student discount coupon and cash to the basement of Harvard Hall either today or tomorrow...
There were smiles and handshakes and promises of success aplenty last March when Braniff airlines resumed flying after being grounded in bankruptcy proceedings for more than l½ years. But the Dallas-based carrier, which converted to a discount airline last September, has not regained its cruising speed. Last week, in an apparent act of desperation, Braniff said it would cut its fleet of 30 jetliners to ten and indicated that it may lay off as many as 1,200 of its 2,100 workers. The carrier will halt service on Nov. 5 to ten cities now on its route...
...Revelation 16. Most scholars believe that Revelation and other prophecies refer to such epochal events as Jesus' death and resurrection and the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in A.D. 70. Others see them as symbolic depictions of the spiritual struggle between good and evil. Liberal theologians tend to discount them altogether...