At the same time, bargain-basement comedies with no name stars pulled in big bucks.
That comment exemplifies the struggle the discount chain, known for its "blue light" specials that sent shoppers scurrying down aisles for a limited-time bargain, has had to endure in modernising its image.
Many working poor don't have smartphones or computers or the time and know-how to bargain shop on the Internet.
For those who acted willfully, the one-time twenty percent penalty is a bargain.
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Real estate investment trusts are on the move again, and Ross Smotrich, an analyst at Barclays Capital, thinks now is a perfect time to buy blue-chip REITs at bargain prices. (For another take on REITs, see page 108.) He likes Boston Properties ( BXP, 50) , which owns classy office buildings like Boston's Prudential Tower, San Francisco's Embarcadero Center and, in Manhattan, 399 Park Avenue, Times Square Tower and Citigroup Center.
Sure, those democratic states will talk, and bargain, and hog air time on Al-Arabiya.
In a recent interview with Newsweek, Mr Rajaratnam said that FBI agents offered him a plea bargain just five years' jail-time in exchange for wearing a wire and taping his conversations with Mr Gupta.
Most houses that were sold were to first-time home buyers who received the rebates, or auctioned and foreclosed homes at bargain prices by those hoping to flip them later.
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If you work for a small employer, especially if your co-workers have small account balances, your employer may have a harder time driving a bargain with the financial firms, often called "record keepers, " that administer 401(k)s.
While aiding the law was part of his plea-bargain, testifying won't get him softer terms--only the proverbial "time off for good behavior" can do that.
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