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...stay on speaking terms with Pakistan's General Pervez Musharraf) and tremendously detailed (you've got to make sure a quarter of a million troops have enough of everything, from tracer bullets to disposable razors). From a sprawling concrete headquarters in Tampa, Fla., that looks like a huge Wal-Mart without the big blue signs, Franks and a staff of 3,200 are running both the war in Afghanistan and the looming conflict in Iraq...
...Hunted particularly confusing scenes, Hallam and L.T. independently carve makeshift weapons out of scrap metal and stone, despite the fact that they’re within walking distance of downtown Portland. Even modern primitives should know better than to do-it-yourself when there’s a Wal-Mart nearby...
...Wal-Mart, which is now the biggest retailer in Mexico and one reason Gigante's same-store sales there slipped 5.5% during the first nine months of last year, also plans to join the supermarket battle in California. It will build 40 Supercenters --discount variety stores combined with supermarkets--and aims to use experience gained in Mexico to aggressively target U.S. Latinos. "The chains are coming back and moving in," says Soto. "It's going to be a dogfight...
...American as a pair of jeans, and no market is harder to crack. So when the father and son team behind burgeoning Turkish denim brand Mavi set their sights on the New World, people naturally thought they were mad. Even madder, rather than sell their jeans at Wal-Mart on the cheap, as many developing country producers do, the pair went for the gold: fashion-conscious youths willing to fork out $60 a pair. And for more than a year after Mavi began exporting to select U.S. department stores late in 1996, sales were painfully slow. Then came Molly...
Jordan: Lots of Wal-Marts. There’s even a Super Wal-Mart, where you can get everything: groceries, guns?...