Word: markup
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...distributed $1.63 million in all, with an additional $350,000 in soft money going to the Republican Party. So House members aren't thrilled to be jumping into a gun-control debate. The same day the Senate was voting on the gun-show provision, House Republican leaders canceled a markup of an important spending bill after Democrats made it known they would offer gun-control amendments...
...Motors. "We channel labor and materials to a stationary outdoor assembly line instead of bringing them together inside a factory." To keep down lumber costs, the Levitts bought their own forests and built a sawmill in Oregon. They purchased appliances direct from the manufacturer, cutting out the distributor's markup. They even made their own nails. Levitt's methods kept costs so low that in the first years the houses, which typically sat on a seventh-of-an-acre lot, could sell for just $7,990, a price that still allowed the Levitts a profit of about $1,000. (They...
Coop President Jeremiah P. Murphy '73 was happy to explain where the 25 to 28 percent retailer markup on a textbook goes. Of this markup, about 11 percent goes to the administrative costs of book purchasing, including hiring staff to obtain book lists from professors...
...early days, the Web was used almost exclusively for the sharing of long, boring academic documents that I will never understand. The ability to link one text document to the next using the hypertext markup language (HTML) allowed scholastic communities to keep in touch...
...This markup is hardly trivial. For one, it drastically overstates the current inflation rate. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the actual compounded CPI increase for food and beverages increased just half a percent over the last three months-- far less than the 11 percent increase at Tommy's. And wasn't it just last year that the pizzeria raised slice prices a dime...