Contrast that 215% mark-up on the ready-to-wear suit to the mark-ups on men's accessories--neckties, belts, braces and the like.
Mark-up to mark-down is a pricing strategy whereby retailers set regular merchandise prices high and then turn around to offer customers discounts.
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Chambers is due to go head-to-head with Mark Lewis-Francis and Jason Gardener in Ostrava on Thursday night in what looked set to be an exciting run-off for the place in the British team.
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Earlier on Monday, Stevens beat Jimmy White 9-7, while Hendry enjoyed a 9-2 victory over Mark Davis to become the first quarter-finalists of the day.
Occupants of The Mark Residences, high-end condominiums attached to The Mark Hotel on the Upper East Side, can have meals cooked by celebrity chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten delivered to their living rooms.
But at least it has now become as much a point of honour in Salzburg to show that one is not a stick-in-the-mud, as it used to be a mark of prestige to get hold of a first-night ticket at all.
Paulson, the president and the SEC should also give firm orders to bank regulators to start exercising common sense with regard to their mark-to-market mania.
He also fought back from 5-0 down to beat Mark Williams 10-9 in the final a year later.
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Dai Young's 14-man Blues won 16-12 at Kingsholm on Sunday to earn a quarter-final place, setting what Holley says was a bench-mark to Wales' regions.
The unassuming manner carries over to the company, where a blowout celebration--like the one to mark its 100th anniversary in 1997--was breakfast for residents of tiny Orrville, Ohio, the Smuckers' hometown, at the local high school.
But a 77th-minute Jonathan Walters goal earned Stoke a 2-2 draw to relegate Bolton to the Championship and allow QPR -- managed by former Manchester City manager Mark Hughes -- to stay up in the Premier League.
There is an old joke--attributed, of course, to Mark Twain--about the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector: The taxidermist takes only your skin.
An agreement had clearly already been struck, and sure enough Paul Nixon and Darren Robinson served up 10 overs of utter rubbish - on agreement - to allow Mark Pettini the easiest century he will ever hit.
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Some say a solution is to suspend the mark-to-market accounting rules that have caused the cascade of write-downs in the first place.
Morgan Stanley, too, is expected to report a loss on April 22nd, largely thanks to having to mark-to-market its own debt, which has become more expensive.
Or he could change accounting rules, giving banks a time out from the relentless, capital-killing mark-to-market rules that require financial firms to price their assets in an environment where no one wants them.
To work our way out of the current morass, it will be necessary to relax the mark-to-market rules for banks on valuing the assets that need to be taken off of their balance sheets.
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act gave the Securities and Exchange Commission the authority to suspend the mark-to-market rules, which went into effect in the fall of 2007, just in time for the credit crisis.
First they use 30-foot yellow ropes to mark off two 30-foot rows of corn.
After all, our huge long-term corporate losses stem not from easy money or mark-to-market rules but largely from the incorrect short-term incentives that compensation plans give to key executives.
After ending his decade-long run in the successful band alt-country band The Jayhawks, opener Mark Olson moved to the country with then-wife Victoria Williams.
He played back to a good-length ball and edged to Mark Wagh at first slip after a 170-ball innings which contained 12 fours and two sixes.
They must be able to suffer through further mark-to-market losses, and not have recession-sensitive jobs or businesses.
By the 45th minute, the Tyrone side's lead had increased to 1-12 to 1-6 with the excellent Mark Harte and Canavan both having hit two points.
They lost three of their final four games and take a 32-18 mark to the All-Star break.
Now, as their filched supplies begin to run out, they are forced to pay huge mark-ups to profiteers, or go hungry.
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