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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: General Motors Corp., Consumers, Target, Small Businesses, Museums
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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: Poetry, Fiction, Genres, Leonard Cohen, FBI
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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...... -
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: National Government, New Products, Restaurants, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Heads of State
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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: Employees, Hillary Clinton, Union (McHenry, Illinois), Elections, Bill Clinton
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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: General Motors Corp., Unions, Employment, Bankruptcy, Labor Legislation
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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: Employees, Wages and Pensions, University of California, Los Angeles, Unions, Labor Legislation
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