81.   Pharmacy benefit managers organize the market for prescription drugs, securing deep discounts from drug manufacturers and retail pharmacies for large employers or health plans.

82.   Poison pills allow shareholders in a targeted company to buy new stock at a deep discount, flooding the market with new shares and making an acquisition prohibitively expensive.

83.   Rental agency sales are seldom profitable, because the agencies mainly buy vehicles that are in excess supply and available at deep discounts.

84.   Retailers typically cut product promotions when manufacturers offer everyday low prices instead of periodic deep discounts, and that hurts sales, Warner said.

85.   Q. Neither CIT nor American General, to name two targets, were trading at deep discounts.

86.   Robert Pitofsky, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, said the settlement would enable retailers to once again advertise deep discounts.

87.   Retailers typically order less when everyday low pricing is introduced, because it eliminates periodic deep discounts, then they gradually return to normal order levels, analysts said.

88.   Revenues have also been hurt by the unexpectedly swift rise of HMOs, which demand deep discounts from hospitals for care.

89.   Salesmen knew that deep discounts could cement relationships with big customers or close a deal before the crucial end of the quarter.

90.   Retailers hope that by rewarding their best customers they build store loyalty and wean consumers from their passion for the deep discounts that drain profits.