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...Arkansas, that excitement emanates primarily from one company: Wal-Mart. State officials say Wal-Mart alone was responsible for bringing 3,000 jobs to northwest Arkansas in 2002--in part because its biggest vendors maintain a presence near its Bentonville headquarters. A study by the University of Arkansas projects the population of Benton and Washington counties (which include Fayetteville and Bentonville) will nearly double by 2025, to 680,000. Unemployment in the region is about 2.5%, less than half the national average...
...steel towns had in the past, Wal-Mart has a multiplier effect, creating work for outside service providers. The Tobees want a wedge of that pie. Cary, 39, and Cheryl, 36, moved their video-production business in July to Fayetteville from Fort Smith, Ark., and have already bid on business with Wal-Mart. "I am hoping for the overflow," says Cary. "You never know when they will need help with a project...
...getting dark and cold in this part of West Virginia. But here in rehab the lights are bright and Jessica Lynch is in shorts, a baggy T shirt and sneakers from Wal-Mart that are a half size too big, to make room for the brace that keeps her left foot from dragging...
...Iraq to stop men like Ahmed. It was a desire to do something significant with his life and gain notice that put him on the path that would eventually lead him to Fallujah. "Right after the first Gulf War," he recalls, "I was driving back from my job at Wal-Mart when I saw a busful of reservists returning home. People were clapping and cheering and honking their horns. These guys were heroes. I thought to myself, That's what I want--recognition, a sense of accomplishment." And so he enlisted. Trained as a paratrooper, Bear served in Afghanistan last...
...year, and companies intend to ask workers to pay more next year, according to the latest survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The California supermarkets fear that if they don't shift more costs to employees, they will lose the ability to compete against operations like Wal-Mart, whose overall costs for goods and labor are lower. "In order for us to stay competitive, we need labor contracts that are good for both our employees and our companies," the grocers explained in newspaper...