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...billion were less than 12% of Sears'. But in the past three years, while Sears' North American retail sales (including those from 131 Canadian and Mexican stores) have grown only 14%, from $28 billion to $32 billion, Wal-Mart's have doubled, from $16 billion to $32.6 billion. Sears' overhead expenses still consume 29% of sales, and K mart's 23%, but Wal-Mart's burn up only 16% of sales. Wal-Mart workers are more productive than Sears': they generate an average of $95,000 in sales per employee, in contrast to $85,000 for Sears employees...
...best way to blanket an area with toxins is by flying overhead and either spraying them crop-duster style or dropping them in bombs. These are the means by which Saddam gassed his own Kurdish minority in 1988. But any plane that Saddam would send up against the allies would probably get shot down in short order. Thus, the Iraqis are more likely to deliver their noxious poisons using artillery shells, missiles and rockets. It would take a terrific barrage of any of these to soak enemy troops thoroughly, and once the blasting started, allied bombers would furiously attack...
Iraqi tanks perched on the north side of a sand ridge near the Saudi-Kuwait border were firing at a company of U.S. Marines on the south side. The Marines were returning fire with TOW antitank missiles. Overhead, a U.S. Air Force A- 10 Thunderbolt swooped toward one of the Iraqi tanks and released a heat- seeking Maverick missile...
...researcher added that right now the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is "indirect cost-blind." That is, NIH reviews grants primarily on the grounds of scientific merit, without looking at a school's overhead cost rate...
Stanford's Byer says that through "very cost-effective" means, the university can claim the indirect costs of research it is entitled and still retain competitiveness for grants. The school received more than $97 million in reimbursements for overhead expenses in fiscal 1990, according to Stanford Comptroller Franklin G. Riddle...