Word: pricing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year, compared to $15,282,000 last year), expenses have risen at a faster rate. Marginality has finally caught up with the Coop. For years he Coop had endeavored to give, in a sense, a double discount. Besides the patronage refund, the Coop has always made a point of pricing as low as or lower than its competition. In fact, the Coop was founded in 1882 for the very purpose of giving undergraduates a store in the Square that priced below the monopoly prices of the other merchants. "We make every effort to price as low as anybody we regard...
...arrival of the discount house in the last ten years has really put us in a squeeze," Brown admits. "We have always tried to price as low as anyone, but now that low is relatively much lower than before. In order to get a dividend, the Coop must cut corners wherever it can. The rebate has to come from somewhere if it doesn't come from higher prices. You can't have a superlative store and fixturing, $5-an-hour sales people, maintain discount prices, provide a lot of service in the form of special orders and still expect...
...been my experience in operating rental housing to a primarily university clientele in both Cambridge and Ithaca that the single most important factor leading to resident satisfaction is the social environment in the building. Decoration and facilities are about tied for second. Location, construction quality, price, etc. are further down the list. Sexually frustrated tenants are never happy...
...have yet to find out what he can't do," says Schmidt, who has rewarded his slapdash star with a threeyear, $250,000 contract, making Orr one of the highest-paid hockey players in history. Bobby-all 5 ft. 11 in., 175 Ibs. of him-justifies his price tag every minute of play. Fearlessly aggressive, he once spotted Detroit's Gordie Howe 30 lbs. and lifted him clear oft the ice. Orr also has, as Teammate Ted Green puts it, "18 speeds of fast," and he is equally effective on offense. Says Toronto Defenseman Tim Horton: "Bobby...
Meanwhile, the undertaxation of land helps speculators hold property out of use while they wait for a city's growth to raise its price. As buildings leapfrog around the holdouts, other taxpayers generally have to foot the bill for the costly roads, water and sewer lines that make land richly salable. In addition to encouraging the growth of "slurbs"-half-city, half-country belts with the worst features of both - the process has driven up costs of homesites by 68% in the past eight years, forcing many families out of the market. "Today's property tax," says Robert...