Word: discounted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pays wages competitively with the other retail stores in the area. Contrary to the opposition's claims, no employee earns under the minimum wage of $1.60 per hour, while the average employee wage is $1.95 per hour. In addition, employees get liberal fringe benefits, including a 20 per cent discount on merchandise for the first year and, thereafter, at cost, group and hospital insurance, sick pay, and paid vacation. As in most retail stores, the employee turnover is high (ten per cent per month) and the average length of employment short (four months), but for the more stable work force...
...first police action--is convincing. Many more had been in the buildings earlier. Some of the latter were doubtless curiosity seekers. For others in both groups the affair probably had many of the elements of the once-traditional spring riots and subsequent "panty raids." But even after discount is made for those elements, the extent of active participation in violent and unlawful protest is significant...
Moscow's campaign to undermine or at least discredit the Bonn regime is not expected to involve overt military action. While U.S. officials do not discount the Kremlin's tough language entirely, they tend to think that the Russians are well aware that an armed confrontation in West Germany could swiftly lead to cataclysm. Anxious to emphasize its concern nonetheless, the U.S. last week announced that NATO maneuvers, originally scheduled for mid-1969, may be moved up to the first of the year. On several occasions, top State Department officials reiterated that the allies viewed the situation with...
MANY EUROPEAN leaders tend to discount the argument that the Russian political experts were simply misinformed and believed the Soviets could set up a new pro-Russian regime in Prague quickly and without repercussions outside Czechoslovakia. The Europeans are convinced the Soviets took these factors into consideration and decided that internal homogeneity was more important than good relations with the West...
...year acquired the two Diamond department stores in Phoenix, Ariz., and the four-store Lipman chain in Oregon. Long committed to the "whole pie" theory of retailing, which emphasizes bargain-basement as well as high-fashion merchandise, the company is also expanding its six-year-old chain of Target discount stores, a $100 million-a-year operation that has outlets in Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri. The most impressive growth has come in book retailing, notably the cluster of B. Dalton bookshops that Dayton's has opened in the Middle West and West in the past two years. This month...