Most big brands and popular wine regions and grape varieties are priced for discounting these days.
Moreover, the electronics business has much lower margins and more price competition, so there is much less room for discounting.
Having stated repeatedly that his goal was to count the votes, Mr. Gore would seem a hypocrite to call for discounting them, they argued.
Laurence Orbach, the chairman of international publisher Quarto, has attacked chain bookstores such as WH Smith and and Waterstones for discounting their books too much.
Many other types of extreme weather fall into this category, with scientists lacking a strong basis for attributing increases to human activity, or for discounting a human effect.
That is why the government-bond yield is the appropriate measure for discounting public liabilities, as Messrs Rauh and Novy-Marx assert.The Bank of England recognises this issue.
Even the sternest critics can be seduced, reverential before the wild-eyed maestro's authority – in fact you could be forgiven for discounting the serried ranks of players behind him altogether.
It floated only a small portion of its stock, making it more vulnerable to price volatility, but questions linger about Groupon's competitiveness in the crowded market for discounting online.Nokia Siemens Networks said it would cut 17,000 jobs.
No one wants to have hired the cheaper firm in a high-stakes lawsuit.But perhaps the most important rationale for discounting is that it lets law firms charge different prices to different clients, depending on their willingness to pay.
Two steamship collisions-that of the Stockholm & the Andre Doria in '56, & its successor, Constitution & a Norwegian tanker a few weeks ago, have served to remind us of the human race's gift for discounting the safety factors it invents.
That is one reason why bond yields are the best measure for discounting pension liabilities: they help set the market price a company must pay if it wants to offload the burden.
