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...fastest growing of all the large retailers is Wal-Mart, the discount empire built by Billionaire Sam Walton from his Bentonville, Ark., home base. Between 1983 and 1987, its annual sales increased by a phenomenal 240%, to $16 billion. That surge lifted Wal-Mart to the No. 3 spot among retailers, ahead of J.C. Penney (1987 sales: $15.3 billion), Federated ($11.1 billion) and Dayton Hudson ($10.7 billion). In the past, Wal-Mart has concentrated on rural areas and not posed much of a threat to Sears, K mart or other established chains. But now Wal-Mart is expanding menacingly into...
Defying a one- year suspension, Jimmy Swaggart puts the spotlight on the Assemblies of God, the U. S.' s fastest- growing church group...
...punishment for him, Swaggart defied the decision and declared his intention to renew preaching next month. He thus not only raised questions about his own future but once again trained an unwanted spotlight on the church group that, before the scandals involving Swaggart and Jim Bakker, had become the fastest-growing denomination...
Much supercomputing research is funded by the U.S. Government, whose appetite for high-speed, number-crunching power for both defense and intelligence uses seems boundless. Last year the Pentagon spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to step up the speed of the fastest machines. One Government project that has a special need for supercomputing power is the national aerospace plane, a high-altitude aircraft intended to carry military and civilian cargo at up to 25 times the speed of sound. Since there are no wind tunnels capable of simulating such blistering airspeeds, the hypersonic plane will have...
...program was effective in cutting down white intimidation of Blacks who wanted to exercise their constitutional right to vote. The result has been that Black Southerners are now the fastest growing voter population in the nation and are finally able to exercise some influence in the democratic process--which has been most notably demonstrated by the election of liberal Southern congressmen who shot down Judge Robert Bork's nomination and by Jesse Jackson's successful organizing efforts...