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...story of his great march forward from humble rural roots to become a great leader. And by the way, would you like us to skin that frog for you? Welcome to Wal-Mart in China, where the late Sam Walton has a new image: the Mao of retailing. And where, as in Arkansas, stocking exactly the right merchandise is still paramount. So the store in Shenzhen, just north of Hong Kong, is crowded with tanks of crabs, fish, frogs and shrimp, which can be taken home wiggling or be expertly gutted and cleaned on the spot. Wal-Mart's push...
...certainly is not the Pacific Coast, and time for sunwear is short. But Alpha-Omega is hardly an improvement. Recent graduates of the College can remember a time when the Square had more student appeal, a time when the space opposite Out of Town News was dedicated not to retail, but to hamburgers...
...accept gifts valued over $20, she refused to accept a ride in a rental car paid for by TIME, and she handed over $30 to cover her dinner. She forwarded a check to ABC correspondent John Miller when he sent her his book on terrorism, paying the full $24.95 retail price. Her frugality is legendary. She wanted to take the subway to testify on Capitol Hill but finally relented and accepted a ride from friends. When she inadvertently bought a Vanilla Coke recently, she took one sip, declared it awful, then drank it all because she could not bear...
...When Houston-based Halliburton, the oil-services giant, offered him its vacant CEO position, he took it, earning some $2 million a year. And when Bush II came along with the offer of Vice President, Cheney hesitated to return to politics - but not for long. He loathes only the retail kind of politics, the gripping-and-grinning, baby-kissing, self-aggrandizing, self-abnegating politics. Cheney loves and flourishes in a different political arena. It is the one that few outsiders see, the one in which, particularly in this Administration, all decisions are made. It is the politics of governance...
...potential has not been lost on the intelligence community. When CIA agents came calling on digiMine, a retail data-mining specialist based in Bellevue, Wash., they carried a list of 900 companies that were pursuing data-mining capabilities, says CEO Usama Fayyad. Through a nonprofit venture-capital fund that it finances, called In-Q-Tel, the CIA has invested in several data-mining companies that serve both the private sector...