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Word: markdown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...networks created to choose a palette that's commercially viable over the next two years, so that firms like Benjamin Moore paint, Ralph Lauren and Ford can be on the same proverbial swatch. The idea is that with a little guidance, a business can avoid getting stuck on the markdown rack with the wrong shade of teal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aqua Blue Crush | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

...wine buyer and general manager for University Wine Shop at 991 Massachussetts Avenue, White already offers HSA a 25 percent markdown on wines normally priced between $15 and $20. Friedman and Zelt both said they were thrilled to have the 24-year-old White on board [See sidebar above...

Author: By Elena Sorokin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Raise the Glass for Class | 9/20/2004 | See Source »

Since being named chief executive of the British design house seven years ago, she has convinced the style elite that the dormant, 148-year-old brand--with its placid beige plaid, which had been spotted, if it was noticed at all, lining the raincoats on markdown racks--not only is no longer a fashion anathema but is in fact a status symbol. Her feat has more than doubled the company's sales, turning it from a $470 million-a-year enterprise to a $1 billion behemoth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1 Rose Marie Bravo | 2/16/2004 | See Source »

...sitting down for this: Kilgour French Stanbury, tailors to the well-heeled and well-dressed, are making some of their suits in Shanghai. Why? The same reason anybody makes anything in China these days: it's a lot cheaper. The Shanghai suits start at $1,650, a mighty markdown from the $5,800 for the made-in-London versions. But is it still a Savile Row suit if it's made in China? Maybe: the suits are cut by British tailors before being sent for sewing to the Kilgour-owned workshop in Shanghai. Kilgour creative director Carlo Brandelli swears there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Style Watch | 10/13/2003 | See Source »

...these are the professionals. As you've probably heard by now, the stock market, like some dim-witted clerk, applies a generous markdown to what it can't figure out. Thus the NASDAQ index fell 12% during election week and plunged again last Monday, crashing below 3000. It bounced back on Tuesday but was dishearteningly choppy the rest of the week. The Dow has been on its own treacherous sawtooth course, breaking the will of many who had expected a year-end rally to take shape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stalking The Bull | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

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