According to Gaul, employee wages represent a major cost for a discount-store company like Variety.
After all, California's (nominally) Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently signed tough global-warming and state discount-drug laws.
In travel he bought the rest of Expedia, the rest of Hotels.com and the Hotwire discount-travel site.
Stern argued that a lower discount-rate was supported by inter-generational equity and the risk of climate catastrophes.
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Traditionally, discount-window loans were provided to commercial banks that were having trouble obtaining financing in the open market.
But without the merchants who provide the products and services that those discount-hungry consumers visit, Groupon would not exist.
Some sponsors give you the option of selling back your interest at a small discount--say, 97.5% of your investment.
Second, the impersonal, rule-based nature of the discount-granting process is more pleasant for both the customer and the store clerk.
It retails these items at prices 20% to 40% below discount-store prices.
Discount-cigarette billionaire owns land in Texas, New Mexico and Florida, mostly used to propagate rare animal species, like the pygmy hippo and okapi.
The Hayes issue perversely called for conversion at a 15% discount -- from wherever the common was trading at the time of conversion.
The New York-based drug giant will make its medicines available to all of those 43 million people at a discount--and sometimes for free.
Shangpin also has an outlet website that marks down some items but wants to stay away from the discount-driven model pioneered by Yoox.com and Net-a-Porter.
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Since the year began, says Charles Schwab, there has been evidence that some customers are shifting back from its discount-broking operations to its fund supermarket.
Using beta, that discount-rate would be unreasonably low, overstating Apple's worth.
As recently as 2005, Brazilian travellers were spoiled for choice as the presence of five major airlines led to discount-fare wars and a wide range of domestic flights.
In order to challenge the fine, I was told that I would have to waive the opportunity to use the early-payment discount - worth 50% of the fine.
Giving council tenants the opportunity to buy the homes they were living in - at a generous discount - was one of the defining policies of the Thatcher era.
The Federal Reserve announced Sunday that it would make discount-window borrowing available to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, reminiscent of its decision in March to provide direct loans to brokerage houses that are primary Treasury bond dealers as the Bear Stearns crisis came to a head.
To put it another way, the Bank is saying that in a business-as-usual way, with no stigma attached and at a cheaper interest rate, it will provide the funds that till now it would only provide through its so-called discount window - which is where banks go to borrow in an embarrassing emergency.
Most meetings "start with chitchat, " says the 39-year-old co-founder of LearnFunGo, a discount software-learning website, who moved to Boston five years ago.
The Federal Reserve said Friday it has approved a half-percentage point cut in the discount rate - a dramatic move aimed at calming markets roiled by a widening credit crisis.
But unlike other premier shopping sites, like Net-a-Porter an Internet version of Bergdorf Goodman or discount flash-sale sites, like Gilt Groupe, Moda Operandi is based primarily on the concept of the trunk show, which allows customers to place advance orders for next season's wardrobe.
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Books sales are flat, discount super-centers like Wal-Mart have gobbled up half the best sellers and no one touches Amazon online.
We looked at the deep discount closed-ends and ruled the first few out.
To take advantage of China's problems with inventory gluts, look at discount e-commerce sites such as U.S.-listed Vipshop Holdings Ltd.
If Intel can command good prices for its chips now, AMD will have to hustle out its newest chips faster, and discount them--just to keep up.
Simon Taylor of Salomon Smith Barney estimates that all three companies are trading at a 20-25% discount to their break-up value.
She said the group, which represents nurses, was pleased University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust had offered a last-minute discount to allow 180 off-island operations to go ahead in December.
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