Word: marts
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...rely so much on Guard people. It's tense for anybody in Iraq. But if you're a special-forces person, you're more psychologically prepared than [if] one day you're cleaning teeth, or working in a car garage, or selling stuff at the Wal-Mart, and a week later you're riding in a personnel vehicle down a street in Baghdad waiting for a bomb to go off and take your life away. Now, that's like my problems--an explanation is not a justification. There is no justification for that...
...months, to about $35, it is nowhere near the $60 highs of 2000. Some analysts say fears that higher interest rates will deter home-improvement spending are hurting the stock. Nardelli doesn't think interest rates can derail Home Depot, nor is he looking for radical ideas. Wal-Mart made the risky move into selling groceries when it went through a period of sagging sales in the mid-1990s and built a wildly successful new business. Instead, Nardelli is stretching the company's existing businesses. He is expanding its services to capture retiring baby boomers who prefer...
...same time, companies also expanded their U.S. work forces by almost 5.5 million, or 31%. Often, "as firms expand or sell in foreign markets, they have to hire people in the U.S. to coordinate logistics and manage," says Slaughter. One example, he says, is Wal-Mart, which has added nearly 1,500 jobs in Bentonville, Ark., since the mid-1990s to coordinate distribution of goods to new stores in 10 other countries in Latin America, Europe and Asia...
...branding and competitive bidding--all of them borrowed from the corporate-management textbook. "What distinguishes us from other charities is that I run this like a business," he says. "Even though we're a monopoly here, I want to be at the leading edge in our field. If Wal-Mart went into food banking, we'd out-compete them...
...have the same look and feel and emotional stamp," says Naomi Berkove, who runs the training program. A marketing consultant has helped the training arm develop a brand image that centers around such in-house themes as "lasting connections" and "self-satisfaction." Mulqueen has boosted efficiency with a convenience "mart" so agencies can pick up food at any time...