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...section, low, faux-granite counters display small appliances in a similar open style. With this design, Wal-Mart has adapted a strategy created by its highly successful Mexican operation, Wal-Mex (which Castro-Wright used to run), that groups domestic wares by room. Wal-Mart recently told analysts that "comp" sales in the newly designed section are doing 3.33 percentage points better than in the old-model sections...
...treat everyone at the same time,” Johnson added. Amid the inconvenience of waiting for washing cycles to finish and the hassle of shouldering laundry up and down the street, some Pennypacker residents found humor in the situation. “I just emailed the [WHRB] comp director telling him I might not be able to make it Sunday because I’m getting disinfected for scabies,” said Zhang. Pennypacker resident Idriss P. Fofana ’11 said he was not scared of people with the disease. “It?...
...light on how one of Harvard's oldest institutions takes form each year.INTO THE WOODS"We have some very crazy characters that are typically Hasty Pudding in nature," Chen says. "And of course, puns galore."Chen and Polk's script was selected for this year's show through a comp process which typically involves eight to 12 applicants. Prospective writers are given general guidelines, such as the number of characters and that there must be an equal number of male and female characters."It's very hard to write a Pudding show, so we give the writers broad guidelines...
...College Night is Outta Sight Boogie on down to the MFA for College Night where the pizza is cheap, the music is loud, and the art is priceless. Hit on artsy BU students and brush up on your Thurston Moore references before The Advocate comp. Thurs., Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. The Museum of Fine Arts, Avenue of the Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston. 2) Bless Your Bleedin’ Heart Harvard faces off against BC —pint to pint. Why should you give blood? Because you feel the need. The need to bleed. Besides the obvious altruistic...
...seen home prices triple in the past five years. Its golf courses number 10, and Starbucks has arrived. Polygamy is tolerated by some residents, ignored by others. Locals say if you want a house built cheap, hire a polygamist, whose use of child labor and indifference to worker's comp laws may help him underbid everyone else. Residents express some resentment about welfare abuse; many plural wives qualify for food stamps and public assistance because they are legally single mothers. It took several days of questioning to find an impartial jury, seven women and five men evenly divided between newcomers...