Word: discounts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gonna get into your head one way or another...'" But outside of Zettel's fevered imagination, the experiments at WJH are pretty harmless, and volunteering time to be a subject is usually easy and profitable. After all, experimenters who buy their leather at a discount have plenty of cash left over to pay for willing subjects...
...AAMC plans to renorm the scores of allaffected students who choose not to retake thetest, allowing their scores to discount the flawedquestions, according to Talada. But he doubted theassociation's remedial measures would helpstudents who were faced with a faulty exam...
...course, undergraduates can't take advantage of these new, low rates in the meantime, since it is practically impossible to switch away from HSTO service. But a residential customer can begin reaping the benefits. International Discount Telecommunications charges a paltry five cents per minute for domestic calls, and calls to London cost only slightly more, at nine cents per minute. And the best part about Internet telephony is that these rates are good 24 hours per day, seven days a week...
...megacarriers are making life miserable for discount airlines. Five, including Pan Am, Sun Jet and Air South, have recently failed. The stragglers, which include Frontier Airlines and Reno Air, have lost a combined $200 million. The big airlines, by contrast, logged record earnings last year of more than $5 billion, a rise of 28%, their fourth consecutive annual increase. No wonder. In the past year, business-class fares have increased 16%, and average air fares have risen 9%. Meanwhile, the price of jet fuel, the airlines' biggest cost item, keeps dropping...
According to Elgin K. Eckert, a second-year graduate student and current GSC acting president, the University is discussing the possibility of making the discount T-pass system a University-wide, operation. Currently, the system, which allows students an 11 percent discount on T-passes, is a small operation run by the GSC for graduate students only...