Word: undercutting
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They are also a good deal more expensive-at least for the time being. A digital disc goes for roughly twice the price of an average album. "I don't see why digital recordings have to cost $15," says RCA's Shepard, who is preparing to undercut the competition with a $10 digital record of Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra in hot pursuit of a Bartok concerto. Warner Bros. Records, Inc., will bring out its first digital record next month, Ry Cooder's lively excursion into rhythm and blues, Bop Till You Drop. Warner is thus...
...some perverse way Fedora is an entertaining film. It is not cynical. There is a weird charm in its enthusiastic embrace of antique cinematic conventions and, more important, a certain daring in the way the piece is written. Throughout their script Wilder and Diamond are ready to undercut their melodrama in order to make judgments ranging from the sly to the nasty about everything from the way to handle the funerals of world-class celebrities to the way the rest of us allow ourselves to be drawn into their self-created dramas. There is a splendid cheekiness...
...last year's billion-dollar-plus sales. One of them, the catalogue showroom retailing operations, which grossed $216 million, embraces brand-name discount chains that require little in the way of display space, sales help and security personnel because customers order merchandise from catalogues. Thus the companies can undercut many of the big low-price chains like K mart. The other, the Carlson Premium Group, which last year got one-third of its $250 million revenues from Gold Bond Stamps, organizes incentive programs for companies that reward high-achieving employees and dealers with expensive trips and gifts. Carlson also...
...disguise the true extent of the dumping, which, according to U.S. Customs officials, was most intense during and after the mid-1970s recession. The kickbacks allegedly worked this way: manufacturers quoted a high official wholesale price but then made illicit payments to their U.S. importers that enabled them to undercut the retail price of American-made TVs by as much as $100. Customs officials and Government lawyers say that virtually all Japanese manufacturers except Sony are implicated...
Carter simply sent to Congress a weak program of standby fuel-saving measures that included a ban on Sunday gasoline sales, a requirement to turn down thermostats in public buildings and restrictions on illuminated outdoor advertising. Whatever limited value the package may have had was undercut when the President told a press conference: "We don't have any present intention of implementing any of those measures...