Word: discounts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Coop is not a discount bookstore. Its obligation is to provide all the books the professors need for courses, and it can't afford within our system to offer competitive prices...
DALLAS: American Airline's decision to slash domestic prices on average by 50 percent has sent fares falling throughout the airline industry. United, Northwest and Continental all trotted out similar discount plans this weekend in markets where they compete with American, leaving only Delta and USAir undecided among the major US airlines about which way the money is blowing. Reservation phone lines and websites for airlines with a discount plan were jammed Monday as passengers scrambled to take advantage of savings that are good only for tickets purchased by March 3. American is offering a 50 percent discount on average...
Your report on [discount brokerage company] JB Oxford is replete with erroneous inferences and inaccuracies [BUSINESS, Dec. 9]. Extensive information provided to your reporter by the company was simply omitted from the story. You referred to [JB Oxford consultant] Irving Kott as "the power behind" the firm who wants "to stay out of sight." The fact is that not the board, management or Kott would describe himself as "the power behind" our company...
...prices the same products in the same stores at regular intervals. Thus it does not reflect the way consumers take advantage of weekend sales, buy at lower prices from catalogs and shift from neighborhood stores to big barns selling everything from tube socks to ridable snow blowers at discount prices...
Citizen Ruth and Sling Blade are directorial debuts with regional roots (Omaha, Nebraska, and Benton, Arkansas). And both feature star turns with a twist: Burt Reynolds as an Operation Rescue-style evangelist, John Ritter as a gay, discount-store manager. But these films have more serious novelties to offer. Citizen Ruth is, lo and behold, a political satire, and Sling Blade has the richness of a fine Southern Gothic novel...