Word: outlet
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...Sawgrass Mills near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, which at 2.2 million sq. ft. claims to be "the world's largest outlet mall," a third of the 17.5 million annual visitors are foreign tourists. On a typical summer day 13 busloads arrive, spending an average of $200 to $300 a person in as little as 90 minutes. Tours are met by trilingual greeters who hand out shopping bags. The mall provides a foreign-currency exchange counter for anyone who needs more money fast. Says Jay Santos, vice president of ACC Tours, which shepherds 100,000 international visitors a year: "We have...
That stubbornness has forced the huge company, based in Bentonville, Arkansas, to think small. In a deal that reflected the determination of Wal- Mart to conquer all 50 states, the firm last week agreed to build a sharply scaled-back outlet near the downtown area of St. Johnsbury (pop. 8,000) as the price of admission to Vermont. Not that it will be a mere boutique. At 75,000 sq. ft., the store will dominate the town's landscape, yet it will still be modest by comparison with the discount palaces of 120,000 sq. ft. that Wal- Mart...
...distribution networks that keep medicine prices down by buying in bulk. Last month Eli Lilly agreed to pay $4 billion for McKesson's PCS Health Systems, which provides drugs at deeply discounted prices to HMOS and insurance plans. The move followed Merck's 1993 acquisition of Medco, another national outlet. Such mergers worry some health-care experts. "Why would hospitals now want to deal with Medco?" asks Alan Shapiro, a finance professor at the University of Southern California business school. "Hospitals and HMOS dealt with it in the past because it was independent and they were really putting the screws...
...have a love of life. The rest of us sometimes envy them," says psychologist Russell Barkley of the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. "ADHD adults," he notes, "can be incredibly successful. Sometimes being impulsive means being decisive." Many ADHD adults gravitate into creative fields or work that provides an outlet for emotions, says Barkley. "In our clinic we saw an adult poet who couldn't write poetry when she was on Ritalin. ADHD people make good salespeople. They're lousy at desk jobs...
Later, even pro-choice Harvard scholar Laurence Tribe admitted that "some risk of chilling protected speech exists." And litigator Staver warned darkly that activists denied a peaceful outlet "will end up expressing themselves in other ways." Operation Rescue director Flip Benham's first reaction seemed to justify that fear: "We won't stop until they kill us," he said. "((The Justices)) have shaken their fists at almighty God, and they are now dust." Later, however, Benham was more subdued. "It will cost so much," he says. "We will spend months and years in jail. We're all trying to weigh...