Word: discounted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...multigeneration tours and packages being offered. With the modern cruise fleet bristling with child-care facilities and supervised children's activities, grandparents don't have to entertain the children all the time. Some lines offer incentives for these two generations to travel together, with no charge or deep discounts for children during certain seasons. Regal China Cruises, which travels the Yangtze River, is offering a 30% discount for grandparents traveling with grandchildren this summer. The line already has a 50% discount for children ages 2 to 12. All told, that translates to a savings of from...
...STUDENT DISCOUNT More than 2 million students with federal loans can now get reduced interest rates by rolling their IOUs together and repaying them electronically. Students with a $10,000 debt and a 10-year repayment plan will save more than $500 on average by consolidating their loans before they start to come due and allowing Washington to collect payments automatically...
...blame them, considering the sorry record of most fund managers? With less than 20% of active managers outperforming the market, it is understandable that last year, for the first time ever, asset growth in individual stocks outpaced that of funds at discount broker and fund supermarket Charles Schwab. Or that No. 1 Fidelity has been stepping up promotion of its brokerage services, as more customers have looked to open hybrid portfolios made up of stocks and funds. "This industry has grown so rapidly that there is a shortage of good managers," says Bridget Macaskill, CEO of Oppenheimer Funds. "But mutual...
...investment world has been turned upside down: Merrill Lynch, bastion of full-service, full-fee brokerage, is getting into the discount game; Charles Schwab, the original no-frills discounter, now charges some of the highest commissions online and offers a full menu of advice. Meanwhile, major exchanges are moving toward evening hours so day traders have more time to lose their money. This special market for insomniacs will eventually go 24 hours, all but ending the family meal and any shot at a good night's sleep...
Madanian characterizes her store's best-sellers--the likes of shaving brushes, Mason-Pearson hairbrushes and Dr. Bronner's soap--as "old-time products but very good products that you don't find in discount stores...