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...retailers for around 40% off the wholesale price. By comparison, mega-stores like WalMart usually get at most a 10% discount from jobbers or liquidation agents. Couple that with Overstock's tiny minimum wholesale order--six units--and it appears that Byrne is trying to play Robin Hood to America's 130,000 small retailers. "These guys are getting put out of business by WalMart because they get lousy service from manufacturers," he says. "Now for the first time they'll be buying something cheaper than the chains...
...water tank are hard to miss. This is no mirage; it's the work of a small volunteer group called Humane Borders, which last year began to erect emergency watering stations in the desert to help aliens stay alive as they try to enter the U.S. As the Rev. Robin Hoover hauls heavy plastic containers of water from his car, he explains its mission: "We want to take death out of the equation...
Canada also serves as East Coast regional coordinator of the Black Community Crusade for Children, a program run by the Children's Defense Fund. He has received a Heinz Foundation award, a Hero Award from the Robin Hood Foundation and a Parents Magazine Award for his work in child advocacy. He is the author of Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America and Reaching Up for Manhood...
Twelve teams qualified for the championship from the seven different Intercollegiate Sailing Association regions. After a head-to-head round-robin over the first two days of competition, the top six teams split off into a championship double round-robin to determine the series champion...
...Robin Pearce, one of the HR project leaders, said the reasoning behind switching to PeopleSoft was twofold...