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Clinton: I believe that if you look at the most successful organizations in this country, that's what they do. Hillary was on the Wal-Mart board, and I was always fascinated by the way those executives would sit around and have their meetings and take some issue and just talk it through to death and get every angle...
Given the state of network news these days, viewers seldom encounter such probing, useful journalism. In a compellingly documented broadcast, a Dateline: NBC investigative reporter went undercover to reveal that despite company denials, the outwardly patriotic Wal-Mart retail chain used child labor in Bangladesh sweatshops to manufacture clothing sold under its MADE IN THE U.S.A. label. Even with two months' rehearsal time, Wal-Mart president David Glass looked like a deer caught in the headlights. Wal-Mart supporters called the report "one-sided...
Some Goliaths have stumbled by getting hooked on growth and expanding far afield from their core business. Sears took its eye off retailing in the 1980s to venture into stocks and bonds and real estate. As Sears diversified, highly focused retailers ate its bread and butter. Wal-Mart offered low prices, while Nordstrom boasted personal service. Now, with its flagship Sears stores in trouble, the company is getting back to basics by selling its Dean Witter brokerage house and most of its Coldwell Banker real estate firm. Sears is not the only respected name to get burned in the financial...
...certainly don't have savings. We buy our new clothes at K-Mart," Dobbie says. "We certainly don't have luxuries in our lives...
...enough, then we'll learn how to do it." Compounding this is the irony that in order to master a VCR, the defining device of the video age, one must first master a nearly antiquated, pre-MTV skill: reading an instruction book. Says David Dewalt, a salesman at Brands Mart in Kansas City, Missouri: "Reading the manual is something most customers don't understand...