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...Mart, the retail discount giant, was prepared for just about any misgiving the residents of Greenfield, Massachusetts, might have. In exchange for turning a 63-acre lot into a 121,267-sq.-ft. store, they would pay the town $100,000 in annual taxes and cover much needed road improvements too. The store even agreed to spring for an archaeological dig on the site, once an Indian campground. "All people were thinking was, 'This is where I'm going to get cheap underwear,' " says resident Al Norman...
...sure way to boost demand for whatever is coming: better symbols on products showing their recycled content. The National Recycling Coalition, based in Washington, has persuaded 25 large industrial companies, including Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, AT&T, McDonald's and Johnson & Johnson, to back a "Buy Recycled" movement. The Environmental Protection Agency is about to launch a "Buy Wa$te Wi$e" campaign, urging consumers and manufacturers to favor recycled goods. "The public must get away from the idea that merely putting items in containers at the curb is recycling," says David Dougherty, director of the Clean Washington Center...
...book stores, besides competence andspecialty knowledge, can offer colorful anecdotesand histories that the K-Mart of textbooks cannot...
...through the 10- acre complex like a yellow-brick road. As a result, Leonard has been hailed as a monument to family enterprise and brilliant marketing by everyone from chicken toughie Frank Perdue to Ronald Reagan to Tom Peters, author of A Passion for Excellence. Companies such as Wal-Mart and Wendy's have sent executives on pilgrimages to study Stew's methods...
...when compared to the high-volume, state-of-the-art, blood-spattered Serbian killing machine, the unarmored Planned Parenthood is a bunch of amateurs. If these anti-abortionists truly cared about saving the largest number lives on the planet, they would have traded in their Bibles and K-Mart attire for guns and blue-helmeted U.N. uniforms long...