customers rebate

Earlier this week, the company said that it would give customers rebates for lost Yankees games but offered no specifics.

Managed-care plans that could offer the same benefits for less cost would be allowed to offer their customers rebates.

Deutsche Telekom also won Government support for a plan to offer corporate customers rebates of up to 40 percent.

The American Telephone and Telegraph Company has begun to give business customers rebates and free calls if their incoming toll-free lines are out of order for more than an hour.

The program, announced last spring soon after Oracle announced its hostile takeover bid, offers customers rebates of as much as five times the purchase price of the software under certain conditions.

With the approval of Bear Stearns, the entire Long Island deal is structured to give Long Island customers rebates in the fall of 1998, when Mr. Pataki will be running for re-election.

Until this spring, Mr. Zarrella tried to keep G.M. above the price-cutting fray, insisting that offering customers rebates, discounted leases and other incentives hurt his efforts to build the brand images of G.M.'s cars and trucks.