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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...pattern gets hot and sells out early, sales are lost. In going direct, however, Wal-Mart will make the factories in India part of its Retail Link system. That allows vendors like Sara Lee (Hanes underwear, Bryan bacon) to dip into Wal-Mart's computers and track sales and replenish supplies constantly. By the same token, Wal-Mart will be held more responsible for these factories' social and environmental policies. As the folks at Nike can tell you, this carries its own risks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Wal-Mart Get Any Bigger? | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

...pummeling the competition. Over the past two years, Kmart filed for bankruptcy, and Ames and Bradlees, once U.S. powerhouses, closed up shop. Wal-Mart is quickly adding scalps in the grocery industry too. Wal-Mart's next competitive weapon is advanced data mining, which it will use to forecast, replenish and merchandise on a micro scale, so that even stores close to one another could have substantially different offerings. By analyzing years' worth of sales data - and then cranking in variables such as the weather and school schedules - the system could predict the optimal number of cases of Lucozade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The World's Biggest Store | 1/12/2003 | See Source »

Sometime between ages 40 and 55, the activity of the chondrocytes starts slowing down and the cartilage takes longer and longer to replenish itself. As the cushion of cartilage grows progressively thinner, the bones begin to grind against one another. This is a normal consequence of aging, but aging isn't the only culprit. Something as simple as falling on an icy sidewalk or putting on some extra pounds can increase your risk of osteoarthritis. Anything that puts extra stress on the joints will wear out the cartilage that much faster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Age Of Arthritis | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

...cars - dozens of lynx are killed every year in road accidents. Park officials are also building tunnels so that the lynx don't have to cross roads to get from one area of the park to another. There are also plans to release more rabbits into the wild, to replenish the animals' food supply. The best hope for the lynx is a captive breeding program, one of which may start soon in Doñana, where three female lynx await a suitable male. But these haven't proved successful in the past. "A national park is not a zoo," Delibes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missing Lynx | 10/20/2002 | See Source »

...addition of three new professors—Professor of Government and Afro-American Studies Michael C. Dawson, Assistant Professor of English and Afro-American Studies Glenda Carpio, and most recently Evelynn Hammonds—is a positive move. It is heartening to see that the University moved quickly to replenish the intellectual capital that was diminished when Appiah and West decamped to Princeton...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Rebuilding Af-Am Studies | 10/16/2002 | See Source »

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