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...eventually rose to the position of country-operations manager, a job that sent him to the Middle East in 1984 to open and manage Safeway's stores in Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Eight years later, he returned to the U.S. to open his own supermarket franchises in Oregon and Washington State. He was recruited by Gigante in 1994 to run the company's operations on the Mexican Baja California peninsula, which include licensed RadioShack and Office Depot stores. "The name recognition of Gigante was just awesome," Frias says. "But many of the middle-and low-income Mexicans who shopped...
...because of the partisan bickering that delayed the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, almost none of it has actually been spent. Democrats are accusing the White House of neglecting homeland security while it slashes taxes and takes up fights with enemies abroad. "How is it," says Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, "that we're asking widows to put duct tape on their house, when police, firemen and medical personnel don't have adequate resources...
...silence him. In the U.S., he is accused of having ties with the Islamic Army of Aden, which claimed responsibility for the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, and of links with James Ujaama, an American awaiting trial for allegedly attempting to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon. Ujaama reportedly ran a website in London for Abu Hamza. The Yemenis also want to question Abu Hamza about his alleged involvement in a plot in Yemen, where his son and stepson were both arrested on terrorist charges. And Abu Hamza has also annoyed Britain's Charity Commission by refusing...
...World, we paid $1,890 each (not counting airfare) for 14 days inclusive of food, transportation and four hotel nights. But prices vary depending on where you go and how many people are in the group. A worthy nonprofit organization, the Wild Salmon Center (at wildsalmoncenter.org) based in Portland, Oregon, has been conducting fishing and scientific expeditions to Kamchatka for years...
...most frequent complaints made by Wal-Mart employees to TIME--low wages and morale-killing store managers--recently factored into a labor case the company lost in Oregon. A jury found Wal-Mart guilty of requiring associates to work unpaid overtime--even locking them inside stores. The company plans to appeal the verdict and says workers were locked into stores only late at night, for security reasons. Some 40 other lawsuits are pending, most of which similarly accuse Wal-Mart of requiring hourly employees to work "off the clock." Since September 2001, Wal-Mart also has been the defendant...