Word: priced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fuss over alleged university tuition- and price-fixing, many have asked since a broad U.S. Justice Department probe became public last August...
...fact that tuition, room, board and fees for seven of the eight Ivy League schools fall within a 2 percent range of each other. Further, a group of northeastern schools annually cite each others' price raises to justify pushing their own fees into the $19,000-range, far in excess of inflation. Finally, some of the schools admit to sharing the range of their tuition increases with each other well in advance of public notification...
...their competitors--for example, who is to decide that only 23 or 60 schools should share financial aid or financial information that might benefit all schools? On the flip side, many other schools not involved in these meetings essentially set their tuition levels from them, reasoning that higher price automatically generate greater prestige and more applicants...
...designer's main collection, called Donna Karan New York, is in demand among an elite crowd that seldom blinks at a $1,100 price tag for a cashmere blazer or $510 for a high-neck silk blouse. But it is Karan's more congenially priced DKNY wardrobe that has struck a popular chord. Among its current best sellers: plaid wool jackets ($395), denim jeans ($85) and merino-wool cardigans...
...made the personal computer a runaway success in the early 1980s, IBM and other firms made a strategic decision to let Japan supply the demand for memory chips that U.S. chipmakers could not meet. The Japanese built costly factories to fabricate an enormous supply of chips. But then their price plummeted way below the cost of production, saddling Japan's conglomerates with huge losses...