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FASHION FOR ALL NOW AT WAL-MART Forget Paris and Milan. Women can now shop at Wal-Mart and stay on trend--not to mention on budget. Metro 7, the mass-market chain's first attempt at fashion-forward clothing, includes items like velvet blazers, above, for only $29.94. Prices range from $9.94 for a sequined tank to $22.94 for embellished jeans...
...longer there,” McCallum says. “The average kid—you know, you’ll go to a major event movie, but other than that, you’ll say ‘Shit, I’ll just go to Wal-Mart and buy it and have it in my library.’”McCallum thinks it’s the responsibility of relative industry outsiders like Lucasfilm (which operates outside the immediate purview of any major Hollywood studio) to push for a world where “Star Wars?...
...spokesman said the company had concluded that "pension plans are kind of a thing of the past." In that, HP was merely following the lead of business rival IBM and such other major companies as NCR Corp., Sears Holding Corp. and Motorola. The nation's largest employer, Wal-Mart, does not offer such pensions either. At the current pace, human-resources offices will turn out the lights in their defined-benefit section within a decade or so. At that point, individuals will assume all the risks for their retirement, just as they did 100 years...
...This, I think, could be a boon for Lancaster tourism. Sure, handcrafted furniture and farm-fresh produce is nice, but if I'm driving all the way to Pennsylvania, I want to see bearded men in eight-piece suits blading around while chatting on their cellies. Kraybill also said Wal-Mart is poised to come to the Buck, a new local shopping center. Should its proposal get past the zoning committee, 75% of Amish near the site say they'll consider leaving. I'm guessing that's just talk, especially once they see the prices on buggy whips...
...wheel and deal and sometimes talk like visionaries. Henry Smith, the man in charge of federal No Child Left Behind programs in St. Bernard, daydreams about building schools on stilts with dorms above them for shelter during hurricane season. Right now, he's just hoping to turn an old Wal-Mart into classrooms for some of the parish's 8,500 students. Builder Terry Tedesco, who sold pricey half-acre lots in his Woodlands development before Katrina flooded him out, is pitching ready-built homes for $150,000. "Why rebuild a house that's 60 years old with aluminum wires...