Word: price
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...third installment of our series on corporate welfare [SPECIAL REPORT, Nov. 23], TIME reported the price of raw sugar as $22 a pound. It is 22[cents] a pound...
...having a serious negative impact on our distressed urban areas, as well as diverting resources from education, research and needed infrastructure repair and maintenance. In short, it is impairing the systemic efficiency of our country, and will put us at a disadvantage in global competition in terms of price and quality, unless, of course, our foreign competition emulates our practices. CHARLES F. HORN State Senate Columbus, Ohio...
While the selection at Amazon is far greater than even at the megabookstores, and the shopping is PC-potato easy, it's seldom cheaper and certainly not faster. Amazon chops an impressive 30% or 40% off the list prices of most hardcovers, but standard shipping adds back about $4 and takes three to seven business days. Next-day shipping runs $11, eating nearly every penny of the $11.58 you'd save on Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full, for instance, compared with the full list price...
This vision is embraced by the individual investors (many of them trading online) who have driven Amazon's stock beyond any established benchmark of price-to-revenues. But many analysts and institutional investors view the stock as overpriced and believe the company faces a tangle of challenges. Its principal foe, Barnes & Noble, recently purchased the Ingram Book Group, the largest U.S. wholesaler to book retailers, including Amazon. This follows Barnes & Noble's sale of 50% of its website operations to giant publisher Bertelsmann AG, creating a potent synergy. Meanwhile, nine other major Web retailers, including CDnow and eToys, recently banded...
...reason for you to waste your time listening to them. Pick up the Best of New Order or Depeche Mode 101 instead. Or rent Pretty in Pink and sing along with the original tunes. Altogether now: "I touch you once/Touch you twice/Won't let go at any price...