Why didn't it force these financial companies to close out the contracts at a discount, making them take what is known on Wall Street as a "haircut"?
Mahonia paid up front, rather than through a series of monthly payments, and apparently received a discount, making the total amount due to Enron $330 million.
CalmSea calculates individual customers' brand and product affinities, as well as their "promotion elasticity"—that is, how big a difference a discount makes in their propensity to buy a promoted product.
Another change being proposed is to legalize poison pills, a takeover defense that typically gives shareholders the right to buy new stock at a discount, making the acquisition price prohibitively expensive for a bidder.
Instead of being thrown away, uglies can successfully be sold at a discount, making food more affordable, and farmers would be able to profit from more of their harvest.
Next question: Does a fat discount make a closed-end into a buy?
We felt that the Droid RAZR was a bit of a mixed bag, but such a steep discount makes it all the more palatable.
Under the agreement, which was apparently never used at any of the state's 112 community colleges, Kaplan was offering students a 42 percent discount, making the cost about $216 a credit, compared with $26 a credit at the community colleges.
At that level, the company said, the price represented a 43 percent discount, making certain assumptions about the offering.
Yesterday, Rosneft bought the last production unit at a big discount, making the state-run oil company the biggest producer in Russia, worth $90 billion €677 billion).
