The Odyssey has been a tremendous success, selling at premiums over the sticker price even while competing minivans are offered with deep discounts, rebates and other incentives.
But even as late booking becomes the norm, there are some signs that the golden era for last-minute travel may be passing, particularly in popular destinations such as the Caribbean, where two years ago the hardest choice a procrastinator had to make was which enticement to go for: cash rebates, deep discounts at all-inclusive resorts, free extra nights at hotels or free flights.
But last year's Wall Street troubles forced deep cuts in the rebates.
Employers and the companies that manage prescription drug insurance coverage favor mail-order pharmacies because they can get lucrative rebates and deep discounts from drug makers.
Be sure that the rebate is deep enough to accommodate the glass, mat, and nails which will be used to hold the materials in the frame.
With deep discounts from landlords and government programs promising rebates, vacancy rates have fallen to slightly below 5percentt over all -- and in many buildings, to zero -- compared with average highs of 45percentt in the months after the disaster.
He believes that economic incentives like rebates, while helpful, don't touch on some of the deeper issues at play.
Some of the first places to offer rebates, such as New Mexico and Louisiana, now have impressive sound stages and a deep pool of production workers.
One thinker who's deeply embedded in last-century economics said the 2008 tax rebates would be like "taking a bucket of water from the deep end of a pool and dumping it into the shallow end".The great thing about new-century economics is we can empirically verify.
Mr. Corzine has repeatedly said that his budget address is likely to include recommendations for deep cuts to higher education, health care and the arts, as well as a possible reduction in property tax rebates.
