allow a discount

Allowing a discount to be set in this way would allow it to be based on profit maximization by the postal service.

Allowing a discount for contingencies, Lord Reid valued the loss of that (possible) £18,000 savings at £6,000.

M.T.A. board members decided that although state law allowed a discount, it also prohibited them from freezing the discount at its present rate while other tolls rose.

(Subsequently, the government proposed exempting the mentally ill and elderly people living in homes and hospitals; and also allowing a discount for students and the less well off; see Paying for Local Government-the Community Charge, 1986.)

Secretary Babbitt indicates he might favor higher public fees - perhaps as much as 60 percent of what private landholders charge - while still allowing a discount for public land use because ranchers must build their own fences and manage the wildlife as well.