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California teachers pension fund to vote against Wal-Mart board
SACRAMENTO — The California State Teachers' Retirement System will cast its 5.3 million shares of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. against the reelection of the company's board after allegations of bribery in the retailer's Mexican operations.
Citing "a...Tags: Education, Corporate Crime, Politics, Pension and Welfare, Companies and Corporations
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Wal-Mart manager starts Web petition seeking change
Weeks after news about Wal Mart Stores Inc.'s alleged bribery and coverup in Mexico surfaced, rank-and-file workers at the world's largest retailer have taken their calls for change to the Internet.
Venanzi Luna, a department manager at a Wal-Mart...Tags: Corporate Crime, Companies and Corporations, Career and Workplace, S. Robson Walton, Political Corruption
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Wal-Mart manager creates online petition seeking change at company
Weeks after news about Wal-Mart's alleged involvement with bribery in Mexico surfaced, rank-and-file workers at the nation's largest retailer have taken their calls for change online. Venanzi Luna, a department manager at a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Pico...
Tags: Corporate Crime, Politics, Pension and Welfare, Companies and Corporations, Mexico
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Demonizing Wal-Mart
In cultural commentary about the American economy, one company at a time always seems to be the goat. Everything it does is interpreted as evil. In the 1950s it was General Motors. GM's CEO, Charles "Engine Charlie" Wilson, became a national figure of...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Museums, Health Insurance, Target, Health and Safety at Work
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Huntsman 'super PAC' buoyed by his father's money
By midnight Tuesday, we’ll have our first glimpse inside the machinery of the so-called “super PACs,” a new breed of independent political organizations that have metastasized during this campaign. That’s when all active...Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Charity, Federal Election Commission, Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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'The Incredible Double' by Owen Hill
Clay Blackburn, the hero of Owen Hill's elegant and understated novel "The Incredible Double," is not your typical detective. For one thing, he's a book scout: a guy who haunts used bookstores and estate sales, looking for the one or two items of real...Tags: FBI, Poetry, Leonard Cohen, Genres, Fiction
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Book review: 'The Incredible Double' by Owen Hill
Jacket CopyClay Blackburn, the hero of Owen Hill's elegant and understated novel "The Incredible Double" (PM Press: 128 pp., $13.95 paper), is not your typical detective. For one thing, he's a book scout: a guy who haunts used bookstores and estate...... -
At Wal-Mart, Clinton didn't upset any carts
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAt a Democratic presidential debate last month, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton described Wal-Mart, the world's largest retail company, as a "mixed blessing." She spoke from experience. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: An article on May 19, 2007,...Tags: Republican Party, Employers, Hillary Clinton, Companies and Corporations, Regional Authority
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Not enough fish in the sea
Times Staff WriterFish counters in green rain slickers patrol a narrow channel of glacier-fed river, keeping close tabs on the thousands of salmon that migrate upstream to spawn. Elsewhere along the coast, observation teams slosh through waterways in waders, carrying...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Companies and Corporations, Red Lobster, Science and Technology, New Products
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An Empire Built on Bargains Remakes the Working World
Times Staff WritersChastity Ferguson kept watch over four sleepy children late one Friday as she flipped a pack of corn dogs into a cart at her new favorite grocery store: Wal-Mart. The Wal-Mart Supercenter, a pink stucco box twice as big as a Home Depot, combines a full-...Tags: Collective Contract, Science and Technology, Services and Shopping, Employment, Kelly Gray
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Scouring the Globe to Give Shoppers an $8.63 Polo Shirt
Times Staff WritersWhen Wal-Mart Stores Inc. demands a lower price for the shirts and shorts it sells by the millions, the consequences are felt in a remote Chinese industrial town, at a port in Bangladesh and here in Honduras, under the corrugated metal roof of the...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Collective Contract, Clothing and Textiles Industry, Services and Shopping, Wages and Pensions
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Not a five-and-dime operation
BENTONVILLE, Ark. — A French chef selling crepes from a food cart on an Arkansas city street may seem out of place, but business is very good for Crepes Paulette. It's about to get a lot better.
The wagon is parked at the head of a scenic path...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Restaurants, Museums, LPGA, Artists
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