"We almost always negotiate rates down from the rack rates, " said Randal S. Milch, general counsel for phone giant Verizon Communications Inc.

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An afterschool program, for example, can rack up good points for keeping down costs and improving student performance on standardized tests.

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The train window was so dank with mist anyway that it was hard to see anything at all except the reflection of my own dark figure hunched down under the baggage rack in my black tweed coat and hat.

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All three suppliers offer corporate credit cards, allowing customers to rack up rewards points which translate into savings down the road.

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In response to seeing rogue investors stare down the Fed, the cautious investor will run for the hills and rack up her savings.

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In a nondescript building, down a largely unmarked hallway, is a series of rooms, each with a rack of servers and a "ground control station, " or GCS. There, a drone pilot and a sensor operator sit in their flight suits in front of a series of screens.

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The Mini was launched a year ago as a scaled-down, blue version of Google's bright yellow Search Appliance--essentially a rack-mounted server that businesses could plug into their network infrastructure for searching up to 100, 000 shared files and Web pages.

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Come to the neighbourhood local, Societi Bistro, to dine in the courtyard garden, with Table Mountain views, or in the atmospheric, brick-walled and wine-rack covered interior on unfussy bistro dishes, such as ostrich burgers or tomato fettuccine, all washed down with local wine or beers that have been expertly sourced.

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About 10% of the merchandise is mark-down goods from the full-line stores while the remaining 90% is bought specifically for the Rack store including some vendor closeouts.

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