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unusual facts about discounting


Discount

Discounting, a financial mechanism in which a debtor obtains the right to delay payments to a creditor


Algae eater

Most species of freshwater snails, discounting most adult specimens of species belonging to the family Ampullariidae, which primarily subsist on aquatic plants as adults.

Famous Footwear

Prior to 1974, due to its discounting policy Famous Footwear was unable to purchase footwear from the two leading athletic shoe giants of the day, Adidas and Puma.

Ken Mellor

He, with Eric Schiff (now Sigmund), was honoured with the Eric Berne Memorial Scientific Award in 1980 for their work on discounting and redefining.

Lexington State Bank

Assets at the close of business on December 31, 1949, totaled $1,845,680.82, including loans and discounts of $799,626.92.

New Green Clear Blue

It was his first album since 1984's I Can Dream About You (discounting the unreleased 1986 album White Boy), and was his final album of all new material.

Star designation

The first such case (discounting characters from Greek mythology) was Cor Caroli (α CVn), named in the 17th century for Charles I of England.

Walker Evans

The three families headed by Bud Fields, Floyd Burroughs and Frank Tingle, lived in the Hale County town of Akron, Alabama, and the owners of the land on which the families worked told them that Evans and Agee were "Soviet agents," although Allie Mae Burroughs, Floyd's wife, recalled during later interviews her discounting that information.


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