21. The ringgit has depreciated, airlines are offering huge discounts and the Western economies especially in North America and Europe are doing extremely well. 22. Western diplomats suspect merchants in Iran and the Emirates buy smuggled Iraqi oil at huge discounts. 23. Good but cheap wine flowed, airlines offered huge discounts to overseas destinations and local luxury hotels and resorts offered temptingly cheap holiday packages. 24. They claimed Microsoft profited from a near monopoly on software by giving huge discounts on its MS-DOS operating system to computer manufacturers. |