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Retailers too are hunting for skilled sales personnel to explain sophisticated products. Home Depot is increasingly turning to design-school graduates to work in its new line of Expo stores, which will cater to customers building new houses. The company has already hired armies of carpenters, electricians and other craftsmen to take the angst out of shopping as the do-it-yourself chain has expanded to more than 300 outlets. Home Depot went farther afield to hire Larry Wells, 43, who lost his $60,000-a-year job as an Eastern Airlines pilot when that carrier went out of business...
...about 220 whose bodies remain buried under charred rubble. The disaster began when a train carrying oil derailed Wednesday and flood waters carried the fuel ignited by electric wires into the town of 22,000. Survivors spent much of the day criticizing the government for building an oil storage depot so near their homes; later, Egyptian Prime Minister Atef Sedki arrived, promising 500 Egyptian pounds ($150) to families of the dead and 25 pounds ($7.50) per displaced person.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
...huge fire, started after a bridge collapsed over oil pipelines during torrential rains at a government storage depot, surged through the village of Durunka, killing at least 200 people. The flaming petroleum, carried on flood waters 200 miles south of Cairo, was still burning out of control late this afternoon. A local member of Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party criticized the government for building the depot in a densely populated area...
...summer he won many changes in the measure as it was being drafted. He convinced the White House that U.S. participation in the World Trade Organization, a powerful new international body formed to arbitrate trade disputes, should be subject to a congressional vote every five years. Then, when Home Depot, the hardware superstore chain based in his Georgia district, objected to a Clinton proposal that would have increased taxes on inventory, Gingrich fought to have it removed. "We did that too," sighed an Administration official...
...they would have routed their opponents long ago. But even the most brazen strategists can sometimes trump themselves. And the Serbs did so last week by launching a raid on a United Nations weapons center in an abandoned factory just west of Sarajevo. The Ukrainian peacekeepers guarding the depot were taken completely by surprise, not realizing the predawn smash-and-grab had taken place until they spotted the Serbs rolling a T-55 tank, two armored personnel carriers and an anti-aircraft gun out the main gate...