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RETAILING: Ye Olde Wal-Marte...
...town has no public parks or swimming pools, no movie theaters, no shopping malls, not even a McDonald's or a Wal-Mart. In fact, business in Lake Providence, Louisiana, is so bad that even the pawnshop has shut down. "The only recreation we have," says a resident, "is poor people's fun: drinking, drugs, fighting and sex." Restless teenagers mill around narrow streets lined with burned-out houses and dilapidated trailer parks. "We've got all the problems they have in New York and Chicago, but nothing to fight them with," says Mayor James W. Brown Jr. If there...
This was a tale better told than typed, Humphreys decided. Bolton bought a $27 mini-tape recorder at Wal-Mart, and for two months, twice a week, she went to the novelist's office and acted out her autobiography. "It was like watching a movie," says Humphreys. "She'd turn on the tape, and she was just gone." The experience gave both women a strenuous emotional workout. When Bolton brought in a photograph of Daddy, now dead, Humphreys felt her stomach wrench. Facing floods of tears without Kleenex, she ripped up a bed sheet...
...institution, and Televisa, the Spanish-language entertainment conglomerate, in cooperation with the U.S.-owned QVC, broadcasts a home- shopping channel produced in Tijuana. People who never before had a car or a credit card now have both. The working-class suburb of Iztapalapa boasts a McDonald's and a Wal-Mart superstore, while the Mexico City slum Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl houses enough VCRS to support a branch of Blockbuster Video...
...American Bar Association. By the 1980s, when its growth took , off under the direction of C. Joseph Giroir, a securities specialist, it had long been the cream of Arkansas firms. Its list of present and former clients includes some of the state's biggest businesses, including Tyson Foods, Wal- Mart and TCBY, the national yogurt franchiser, as well as Little Rock Airport Commission and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which oversees banks...