Word: discounts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...month, more than 7,000 Americans lined up at pharmacy counters in Los Algodones--up from 3,000 a day just two years ago. The number of drugstores, meanwhile, has tripled over the past five years, from 10 to 30. Lately, Mexican dentists and optometrists have added their own discount services as well. "It's busier than ever," says Maria Dolores, head of a local tourist agency. "People find out that the dentists are good and the drugs are the same ones as in the U.S., so they tell their friends...
...NEIGHBOR OF MINE NAMED DAVID ROTHENBERG, WHO HAS MANAGED TO reach the age of 62, informed me with some pride recently that he is now eligible for the senior-citizen discount at many movie theaters...
David, on the other hand, seemed to consider his movie discount what people in Washington would call an entitlement, richly deserved and untouchable. He spoke of it with such youthful enthusiasm that I found myself wondering, just for a moment, whether there was any possibility at all that someone could hold off the ravages of age by repeated viewings of Hollywood movies at half price...
Moderate and liberal students, on the other hand, discount the Review's claim to represent the majority of Dartmouth students...
...Greenspan last week made a pump-priming move: he led the board in reducing two key interest rates, the federal funds rate and the discount rate, by a quarter-point each. That prompted major banks to lower the prime lending rates granted to their best customers by the same amount, to 8 1/4%. The discreet adjustment, his third since July, also drew an ever so discreet statement from the Administration praising the cut while stressing respect for the Fed's independence...