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...Mart's push into China--and Brazil and Germany and deeper into California and New York--offers a hint of why the world's largest retailer seems unfazed by this stinker of a holiday shopping season. Wal-Mart's sales in stores open at least a year were up only about 3% compared with the same period last year--at the low end of its expectations. But many other retailers were hurt much worse. Wal-Mart just keeps gaining market share, not only from bankrupt discounter Kmart but also from grocers like Kroger, drugstore chains like CVS and electronics sellers...
...hopeless,” “nonsense,” on the one hand; “doubtless,” “obvious,” “unquestionable,” on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, antiacademic languor at this stage as well may match the grader’s own mood: “It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists—at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous—that smile as we may at its follies...
...Hong Kong, is crowded with tanks of crabs, fish, frogs and shrimp, which can be taken home wiggling or be expertly gutted and cleaned on the spot. Wal-Mart's push into China - and Brazil and Britain and Germany and deeper into California and New York - offers a hint of why the world's largest retailer seems unfazed by this stinker of a holiday shopping season. Wal-Mart's 3% like-for-like sales increase in the fourth quarter was at the low end of its estimate. But Wal-Mart did better than most and its total sales this year...
...Stevie Wonder,” he says without a hint of pride...
...leave the country. UNMOVIC has made clear that it is unable to take Iraqi scientists abroad if they decline the invitation to travel. "We are not going to abduct anybody," said chief inspector Dr. Hans Blix last month. "And we're not serving as a defection agency." A hint of the problems that may arise emerged recently when UNMOVIC sought a private interview with an Iraqi academic, and the scientist himself insisted on an Iraqi government official being present. Not surprisingly, UNMOVIC is being tight-lipped over just who it plans to ask, and how the process of taking them...