Word: unload
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...Thus do supply and demand meet again, with the skittish consumer setting some very tough terms. The post-Christmas period has always been rife with discounts, as retailers look to unload the last of their leftover winter inventory on shoppers returning unwearable sweaters for store credit. This year the price cuts will go all the way to the bone and beyond, and there are hopes that the bargains (getting plenty of free publicity from economics writers) will draw enough mall traffic to get the job done...
...investors back, each made forays into electronics and software, with disastrous results. Hasbro, after losing $200 million on an interactive division and website, sold both ventures for $100 million early this year. Mattel in 1999 bought educational-software maker The Learning Co. for $3.5 billion, only to unload it this year for an "undisclosed sum," which analysts say was virtually...
...outside, Dockers' Mobile Pant appears to be an ordinary pair of tailored slacks. But tucked inside its waist seams and hidden behind zippers on the legs are three extra mesh-lined pockets for stashing everything from your cell phone to your PDA. One piece of advice: make sure you unload your cache before passing through airport metal detectors, or you'll be outed as a geek faster than you can say Palm Pilot...
...turns out that roads are no less vulnerable. The trucking industry loses as much as $12 billion a year in cargo thefts, which often occur when gun-wielding crooks surprise drivers as they nap or refuel. The robbers typically sell the cargo, if they can, and sometimes unload the big engines as well...
...turns out that roads are no less vulnerable. The trucking industry loses as much as $12 billion a year in cargo thefts, which often occur when gun-wielding crooks surprise drivers as they nap or refuel. The robbers typically sell the cargo, if they can, and sometimes unload the big engines as well...