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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Verde, anyone who arrives at the restaurant between 7 and 11 p.m. can sample brandy and wine, receive a 50 percent discount on cigars and cigar accessories and a discount on humidors--a wooden box which stores cigars--from Hispano Fine Cigars of Boston...

Author: By Kevin S. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Cigar Group Expects Hundreds of Connoisseurs | 11/12/1997 | See Source »

When a little-known gospel group named God's Property made its debut last summer, more than a few record executives must have gagged on the irony and wished the album a quick trip to industry hell, the discount bin. The group's distributor, Interscope Records, had previously banked some of rap's most notorious performers. But the rap-flavored rhythms and praise-the-Lord lyrics of God's Property rose in the charts. Divine intervention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A SOUND REBOUND | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

California fined nursing homes $2.4 million last year but has collected only $500,000 (the state gives nursing homes a 50% discount on fines that are not appealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NURSING HOMES: FATAL NEGLECT | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...case goes to the jury this week. If they discount his dramatic account of self-defense and find him guilty of first-degree murder, Scher may be sent to prison for life. (His crime predates the state's reimposition of the death penalty.) "We fought this battle to get answers for a long time," says Mead, who sits with Lawrence Dillon during the trial. "This should have been done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEATH IS IN THE DETAILS | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...people who shop at K Mart know what a drummel drill is [BUSINESS, Oct. 6]? Or a mandoline? Do they use these esoteric devices? Do they eat quinces regularly? I am amazed that life-style guru Martha Stewart thinks she can transform K Mart discount stores by capitalizing on her ideas for home decorating and cooking elaborate meals. Surely her success is due to her ability to sell a dream (not products) to thousands of would-be Marthas. Sure, we'd like to do all of the "good things" she tells us about, but those of us who shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 27, 1997 | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

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