Word: marts
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...there, lurking behind the freeway as if it had been teleported into this tiny town. In 1999 WorldCom founder Bernie Ebbers moved the company here, to his old college town, and everything changed. Employees started wearing their badges around town as a sign of their achievement. A Wal-Mart Supercenter sprang up. And millions of Ebbers' dollars went to making over Mississippi College. When friends came to visit Cynthia Cooper for lunch, she would give them a tour of the facility. This is the town where she had grown up, and she was proud of this company that knew...
...greatest strides up from the bottom, however, have been made in race relations, due to the implementation of Civil Rights laws - all of which Lott has opposed. The term New Mississippi is not just a PR gambit - it's real. Walk into a Burger King or K-Mart or Ole Miss Library and you'll see blacks and whites eating, shopping and studying together. "Forty years ago when the state was first integrated, blacks had no rights," veteran journalist Curtis Wilke recently noted. "Today they politically control the Delta. White people are living with that reality just fine. Today nobody...
After the year she's had, Martha Stewart could use some Christmas cheer. In the wake of her insider-trading scandal, she stopped appearing on CBS's The Early Show, resigned from the board of the New York Stock Exchange and saw her face removed from K Mart's holiday ads. But, overall, the season seems to be treating her well. K Mart says sales of Stewart's Everyday line of linens and housewares are up this year, and her new line of holiday wares--ornaments, wreaths, lights--is off to a fast start too. "People are separating Martha Stewart...
...those of you who don’t know—primarily the hyper-urbanized hipsters who’ve never been in a Wal-Mart or Toys ‘R’ Us—this past holiday weekend featured that ubiquitous post-Thanksgiving materialistic orgy known as “Black Friday.” Thanks to the department stores and shopping center kiosks’ generosity, for one blissful day prices on almost everything are reduced more than 50 percent from their usual 75 percent markup...
...also widely believed that increased productivity will lead to permanently high unemployment. Economic theory (and a preponderance of historical evidence) suggests that unemployment is only a temporary consequence of reform. Higher productivity leads to lower prices, which spurs increased consumption, which requires increased production?and more jobs. Wal-Mart, for example, wiped out the American equivalent of the Nakamura store?to nationwide hand wringing?throughout the 1980s and 1990s; unemployment is lower in the U.S. today than it was then, and at 5.7% is lower than Japan's unemployment rate is now. Since 1990, according to the Japan Productivity Center...