Word: discounting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of the stores in the Harvard area have resorted to expensive security systems to deter the mounting losses. The Coop has a network of plainclothes agents throughout the store. Serendipity and The Discount Book Seller both have detector systems though which their clientele must pass as they leave...
...competition is already sizable. Some 800,000 units are in use in the U.S., manufactured by Matsushita and eight or nine other companies in addition to Sony. The new Betamax now costs $1,250 ($900 at discount), but the price is likely to drop. It is an appealing gadget. Quite apart from its immediate use, taping programs the viewer might overwise miss, VTR cassettes can record for endless home reruns the occasional classic series such as Shakespeare's plays or historic news events like the saturation coverage of the Pope's visit to the U.S. And there...
...taciturn Paul A. Volcker has lost no time in establishing himself as a staunch inflation fighter, dollar defender and hard-liner on interest rates. Since he took charge on Aug. 6, the key rates used to manipulate credit policy have shot up dramatically. The Fed last week raised the discount rate, which is the interest it charges on money that it lends to member banks, by a half-point, to 11%, a record high. Several major banks then boosted their prime rate by a quarter-point, to 13¼%, also a record. That was the sixth jump in the prime...
...latest discount rate increase prompted a rare rebellion among its seven governors. Three of them opposed the move, saying it would seriously worsen the slowdown in the economy. There are signs that the recession will be deeper and longer than was predicted only three months ago. So some economists dispute Volcker's assertion that "what basically is good for the dollar is good for the economy at home." They are fearful that in his zeal to raise interest rates to buttress the buck abroad, he will worsen the Interest rates have been rising through the industrialized world since July...
...Freshman Council on the Arts, headed by Evangeline M. Morphos, will offer a program similar to Learning from Performers because Morphos believes freshman are often left out of the freshman arts office program The freshman arts office also provides discount rates on tickets to many cultural events in Boston as well as funding for freshman art projects. Between the offices of Morphos and other undergraduate student groups, most students will find enough to keep them satisfied. You may have to pay for them--not very much--but they're there...