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...refer to as "associates." In the process, he became America's richest person, his family's wealth estimated at $23 billion. But he also became the patron saint of a down-home style of megawealth; eschewing the fancy trappings of power, "Mr. Sam" drove an '88 Ford pickup truck and hopped around the country to visit stores, take the pulse of consumers and inspire his workers. His passion, his joy, was fine-tuning his vast merchandising network by insisting on such things as brighter smiles and cheerier "Good mornings" to customers from store workers, as well as offering the latest...
...difference between being raped and being run over by a truck is that people ask you if you enjoyed...
...larger than all three secessionist Baltic republics, is one of more than 30 ethnic enclaves within the federation. The region, where the predominantly Muslim Tatars make up only 48% of the population, is rich in oil and home to major industries, including Kamaz, the world's largest heavy-duty truck manufacturer. In his 1990 presidential campaign, Yeltsin challenged Tatarstan to "take as much sovereignty as you can swallow." But surely he did not expect his listeners to take such a decisive bite...
...Crimson often asks its readers to recycle their papers when finished. As Recycling Coordinator, I am happy to say that these requests seem to work. Every week, thousands of Crimson issues are among the six tons of newspaper we truck off campus for recycling. However, recovering discarded paper is only half the job of recycling. The other half is buying recycled. Unless consumers express a purchasing preference for products made from recycled paper, backlogs of post-consumer paper will pile up in dealers' yards. Because demand for products made from recycled newspaper hasn't caught up with the supply, Harvard...
...report also counted 3,641 car bombs, which killed 4,386 people. The toll includes 241 U.S. Marines and 58 French paratroopers who died in nearly simultaneous truck bombings in 1983. The Lebanese conflict, which ended in 1990 when Syrian forces crushed Christian General Michel Aoun and an Arab League-mediated peace accord took hold, claimed more than twice the number of lives lost by both sides in the five major Arab-Israeli wars since...