That stream, of course, is not a certainty, so those future profits must be discounted for time and risk.
"No political or sectarian belief should be discounted, for they are based in religion, science, and personal beliefs, and of course elections without competition are impossible," Rouhani said.
The cap, if implemented, would apply for the duration of a single academic year, and would be discounted for homemade gifts or items intended for classroom use.
He notes what is lost and gained by the deliberate omission of these contexts from the poem itself, and asks, "What is the cost to a reader's self-esteem and resistance to vicarious hedonism, what must be discounted, for The Solitary Reaper to work for a reader justly and adequately aware?" Prynne's volume is titled Field Notes.
"The court said that votes should not be discounted for 'hypertechnical' reasons," said Mark H. Scruby, a lawyer for the Clay County canvassing board, which met on Friday to recount absentee votes and gave a net gain of 12 votes to Mr. Bush.
This last characteristic is not to be discounted, for as Edward Bunyard wrote in "The Anatomy of Dessert," his 1929 classic of fruit connoisseurship: "The presence of acid, that oboe of the Pyrian orchestra, gives a zest and at once raises the mere Pear to a higher plane".
The first true royal colossi were produced in the 12th dynasty (if the Great Sphinx of Giza is discounted) for the embellishment of cult temples.
And that's an identity he's discounted for himself, "but I'm totally fine with that, because it's not really what I want to be".
Brutal winds and an almost complete lack of water made concrete construction - other materials were discounted for economic, practical and conservation reasons - tricky.
Arboreal amateurs and seasoned branch-snippers are equally welcome, and the inclusive approach extends to course fees, which are discounted for those on low incomes.
An executive producer I spoke to said she had heard of women being discounted for jobs because they had made sexual harassment complaints.
