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...leading retailer there, adding market No. 10. That leaves most of Europe, not to mention large parts of Asia and South America. Wal-Mart made a dream debut in the U.K. with the $10.7 billion acquisition of ASDA in mid-1999, where it discovered a company almost perfectly in tune with its Every Day Low Price (EDLP) culture. But expansion in Germany has been less than stellar, delaying, perhaps, Wal-Mart's move into the rest of Europe. Wal-Mart reached Europe in 1998 when it bought Germany's Wertkauf. A year later it added Interspar, and then mangled...

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

...This song isn't a classic, but Presley's rendition is - an Elvis apotheosis and an Elvis parody. (Everyone else was imitating him; why shouldn't he?) Grateful for a jaunty tune about his favorite stuffed animal, and perhaps for the marketing tie-in to the official Elvis Presley Teddy Bears on sale at better chain stores, he turns it into a children's song; he could be a father crooning silky nonsense to a first-born. He lends a seductive petulance in "I don't wanna be your tiger/ 'Cause tigers play too rough." He plays with the title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Happy Birthday, Elvis | 1/8/2003 | See Source »

...attempt to protect its graduates from a slumping economy that shows few signs of picking up, Harvard Business School (HBS) plans to award 10 of its 2003 graduates unable to find jobs with a nice consolation prize: a one-year internship at HBS to the tune of about...

Author: By Maria S. Pedroza, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HBS Extends 90K Offer To Grads | 1/8/2003 | See Source »

...only show devoted to country music in New England, “Hillbilly at Harvard” has acquired a faithful base of listeners who tune in for the banter of the co-hosts as much as for the music...

Author: By Maria S. Pedroza, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Radio’s ‘Hillbilly’ Dies at 62 | 1/6/2003 | See Source »

...region over the next month, even dispatching the hospital ship Comfort to the Gulf. President Bush is unlikely to countenance bringing home those troops as long as Saddam remains in power in Baghdad, swearing that he has no weapons of mass destruction. Saddam shows no sign of changing his tune, nor have the UN inspectors thus far turned up any evidence to contradict him despite Washington's undertaking to provide them with intelligence to help them do just that. The best hope of the Arab and European governments hoping to avoid a war may soon rest on their ability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will North Korea Cloud U.S. Iraq Preparations? | 1/3/2003 | See Source »

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