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This year, the Crimson is playing hockey the hard way. Guys are hanging out around the net, taking shots as cheap as J.C. Penney suits. Guys are pinning others guys to the boards and reading them their rights. Guys are going into the corners like there's gold buried there...
...corporate employees working at home has ballooned from 20,000 to 600,000, according to the Los Angeles-based Center for Futures Research. Link claims that the roster of major companies that offer telecommuting has expanded from 200 to 350 since 1984. Among them: American Express, Johnson & Johnson, J.C. Penney, Blue Cross/Blue Shield...
...rate of the retail industry as a whole. Last year Wal-Mart posted profits of $450.1 million on sales of $11.9 billion, up from only $2.4 billion five years earlier. The company, which ranks as the fourth largest U.S. retailer, is poised to supplant the No. 3 chain, J.C. Penney (1986 sales: $14.7 billion), and is moving up fast on the industry behemoths, K mart ($23.8 billion) and Sears ($44.3 billion). This week Wal-Mart plans to open eight more stores in towns ranging from Canon City, Colo., to Hickory, N.C., bringing its total...
...Mart now has tremendous momentum, but the founder is still a prime force. The son of an Oklahoma farm-mortgage broker, Walton earned an economics degree from the University of Missouri and joined J.C. Penney in 1940 as an $85-a-month trainee. After serving in the Army, he pooled his savings and borrowed $25,000 to buy a Ben Franklin store in Newport, Ark., in 1945. By the late 1950s he owned more than a dozen similar stores, but decided that the future was in discounting rather than in five-and-dimes. After studying a K mart in Chicago...
...mail-order ammunition. By dialing a toll-free number in which the last four digits spell BANG, customers can order ammunition ranging in size from .22-cal. slugs to 458 Winchester Magnums, known as elephant bullets. Says Aaron Zelman, the company's owner: "It's just like the Penney's or Sears' catalog...