Word: wal
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...where her body lay, one cable network correspondent observed there were more cameras present than he had seen at Yassir Arafat's funeral. But Anna Nicole Smith, 39, possessed a different kind of claim to fame and infamy. She went from a flat-chested, smalltown girl who worked at Wal-Mart and Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken in Texas to become a mega-celebrity of the 21st century sort, all name, little resume...
...Percentage of DVD sales in the U.S. made at Wal-Mart, which this week launched a download depot--with approximately 3,000 movies and TV shows--to compete against online-rental firms...
...genius, but I had the potential for an Ivy League education." She had to settle for an associate degree at the local community college. "If I'd had the Murphy program, no telling where I would be," whispers Owens, who works an evening shift at the local Wal-Mart to help support her three children. "At least it will be there for them...
...last year. "It used to be that the Gap dictated fashion, but now customers have so many resources, they dictate what they want and see if a store has it," says Marshal Cohen, chief analyst at the NPD Group. And they found what they wanted everywhere, from Target to Wal-Mart to Abercrombie & Fitch. The Gap may have invented cheap chic, but it steadily lost customers to stores that were cheaper, chicer or both...
...elaborate torture ring operated - and later covered up - by high-ranking Chicago police officials from the 1970s until the '90s. What's more, in an unprecedented show of defiance, the city council broke ranks with the mayor, passing an ordinance to boost the wages that Big Box employers like Wal-Mart and Target would have to pay. In the end, Daley persuaded enough aldermen to reverse positions to ensure his veto wouldn't be overridden, demonstrating that "da Mayor" was still very much the boss...