Word: organisms
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...think of Wal-Mart as a huge pipe organ with thousands of stops that executives constantly pull and push. Early on the day after Thanksgiving 2001, one of the busiest shopping days of the year, the system was reporting slow sales of a boxed computer-and-printer combo for which merchandisers had had high hopes. But one location was bucking the trend. A quick call from headquarters determined that the store manager had cut open one of the stacked cartons so shoppers could see they got both machines for one price. Soon a message went to all other stores: open...
...Claire Watts, Wal-Mart's fashion boss. "Would it kill us to be a little more up to date?" Wal-Mart is also importing ASDA's recruiting philosophy, "Hire for attitude, train for skill." Labor is a particularly ticklish subject at Wal-Mart because unions have been trying to organize its U.S. stores. That effort has been unsuccessful so far, in part because Wal-Mart's wages are competitive with other retailers'. But the two 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...
...vaccine is made up of the live smallpox virus, it can be extremely dangerous to people whose bodies are not capable of fighting off disease. As many as 60 million Americans with compromised immune systems will not receive the vaccine. People with AIDS, HIV, cancer, who have had organ transplants or a history of eczema could suffer extremely serious side effects from exposure to the virus, including death. Pregnant women and women who are breastfeeding should also not receive the vaccine...
Misono has been officially endorsed by Ethan L. Gray ’05, president-elect of HRO. Other musical groups on campus, including the Harvard Piano Society, Harvard Organ Society and Harvard Pops Orchestra, have forwarded information about him to their members...
...journalists spent the night craning to look at parts of ourselves that we had only pictured before in an abstract way. Is my liver really that big? And my brain that small? Could those two conditions possibly be related? I was fascinated by the corpse's gall bladder, an organ my doctor once threatened to remove, and which I had consequently associated only with pain and fear. Glistening, vibrantly colored and full of tiny, multifaceted stones, I now saw that it also had a strange beauty, displaying our bodies' perfect, if seldom seen, balance between fragility and resilience. And that...