Word: discounts
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...city now has the option to buy 100 of Harvard's formerly rent-controlled apartments of various size and location for $3,155,200, or less than $32,000 per unit--a significant discount from market value...
...TRADE, as well as Lombard Institutional Brokerage www.lombard.com and discount pioneer Charles Schwab www.schwab.com) is part of the next wave of brokerages that are shaking up the Wall Street establishment by trading stocks and bonds in cyberspace. Unlike traditional securities firms that operate out of storefronts and office buildings, this new breed connects to its customers mostly through...
...increasing numbers of investors take financial matters into their own hands, trading companies such as E*TRADE are expected to proliferate. The number of brokerage houses offering electronic trading has nearly doubled in the past year--to 22--including Jack White & Co. and National Discount Brokers. There are already 650,000 active online brokerage accounts, compared with 413,000 in 1995. By 2000, predicts Mary Doyle, senior analyst of mass-market interactive services at IDC/Link Resources, there will be 1.5 million online accounts. Says she: "The days are over when brokers called all the shots, controlled customers' accounts and charged...
...pays at the upper end of the industry scale and provides full health insurance, a discount stock-purchase plan and a cash profit-sharing bonus. The company has offered flex-time for 20 years and has incorporated job sharing, compressed work weeks and telecommuting...
Cuba's research efforts have been highly pragmatic, aimed at solving real-life problems--of which Cuba has more than its share. Cuban agriculture nearly collapsed following the breakup of the Soviet Union, which for years subsidized Cuba with discount petroleum and petroleum-based fertilizers and pesticides. So scientists at CIGB concentrated on improving the food supply. Among other things, they equipped sugarcane and potatoes with bacterial genes that confer pest resistance and added an extra growth-hormone gene to tilapia, creating a faster-growing variant of that tasty freshwater fish...