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...Harvard students should adopt the friendliness rules of Wal-Mart. If you come within 10 feet of another individual, smile, look them in the eye and greet them with either hello, good morning or my, you look ravishing. (Caution: Use the third greeting sparingly, lest you appear insincere.) Even if you do not attract members of the opposite sex, you will at least contribute to making Harvard a more civil place...
...supermarkets, including Safeway, Jewel and Lucky, were snapped up in buyouts during the past decade. The survivors face more competition than ever before. It is not uncommon to find three or four national chains -- not to mention a mass merchandiser like K Mart or Wal-Mart -- competing in the same territory. With tougher times ahead, grocery chains are turning to computers to gain a competitive edge...
...Mafia. Against all odds, the most corrupt U.S. labor union elected an underdog reformer as president -- Watch out, wiseguys . . . Sam Skinner moved up from Transportation Secretary to displace arrogant-to-the-end John Sununu. Skinner was just what George Bush needed -- a crisis manager who flies coach class . . . Wal-Mart isn't just a discount store anymore. Sam Walton's brainchild surpassed Sears in 1991 as the largest U.S. retailer . . . Nirvana found its place in alternative-rock heaven. The hit single Smells Like Teen Spirit has become an anthem for apathetic kids . . . Aung San Suu Kyi couldn't pick...
...closely involved in creating hundreds of designs ranging from unicorns, Dalmatians and bears to ballet slippers and hearts. Says Frank: "Our company is more of an artistic passion than just a business." The Arizona firm, which first distributed the products in department stores and later moved into discounters like Wal-Mart and Target, plans to expand soon into apparel, animation and video...
...insisted on the driver's license, so I retrieved it from the car. He compared it with the information on the form, filled in his portion of the Firearms Transaction Record and rang up the sale. As the manager walked me out, he told me that two months ago, Wal-Mart had changed its policy and now required that ammunition be sold separately...