Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson editorial dated April 1, 1981, the Crimson asked why the textbook prices are so high at the Coop, etc., etc. We have compared [prices of six "well-known" textbooks] to five other college stores in and out of our area. In addition to competitive textbook prices. Coop members last year received a rebate of 9.5 per cent, the largest rebate we know of in America in any bookstore cooperative (Yale had a 4.5 percent rebate...
...downtown Boston. The store is located in the same building where a new Harvard Club of Boston exists and is designed to serve the alumni (one of the groups the Coop has served since 1898) and their needs. The downtown Boston store, because of the absence of profitless textbook sales, provides a higher margin of profit and benefits everybody's rebate...
...work, of course, largely because Bradley was-in sharp contrast to flamboyant General George S. Patton Jr.-a methodical, textbook commander who shunned flashy or risky tactics. Instead, he trusted meticulous preparation for slow, cautious assaults that held a solid chance of success. When a fellow officer, Major General William B. Kean Jr., expressed a mild worry about the awesome task of planning for the Normandy invasion, Bradley replied: "But, Bill, who in the Army knows more about it than...
...recognized as the father of child psychology for being the first to describe early infantile autism, which also became known as Kanner syndrome, and for other pioneering work at the Johns Hopkins Children's Psychiatric Clinic, which he founded in 1930; in Sykesville, Md. Kanner wrote the classic textbook Child Psychiatry (1935) as well as more popular works on child rearing in which, for example, he urged mothers to regain the common sense that had "been yours before you allowed yourselves to be intimidated by would-be omniscient totalitarians...
Furthermore, why are textbook prices so high at the Coop when the store obviously has enough money to charge its members less and still remain financially sound...