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...I make one diversion before leaving town: a mile-long walk from the square to Crystal Bridges, the museum of American art that opened 11 years ago....
...Tens of thousands of shareholders will travel hundreds or thousands of miles to attend something akin to the Lollapalooza of capitalism....
...Nine out of 10 of them had passed urinalysis. John Snyder admits the career is not for everyone. In his 42 years on the road he has driven millions of miles through 46 US states....
...The Trans Mountain pipeline runs for 720 miles from Edmonton in Alberta to Burnaby on the coast of British Columbia....
...lobbying India’s Cabinet approved a retired judge to probe claims that Wal-Mart Stores Inc....
...In the 19th century, the city was considered so hard to get to that the Société de Géographie offered a 10,000 franc reward for the first person to reach the city and make it back....
...Jobs at Wal-Mart and McDonald’s pay twice the federal minimum wage. The city has revenue to burn. “How long do you think it will last?”...
...His farm is about two miles from Pinnacle Hills, and a few miles more from Wal-Mart’s “Home Office” in Bentonville, in an anonymous warehouse....
...Two hours earlier and a few miles away, the crowds at the local Wal-Mart Supercenter had been similar, with cars again cruising the parking lot looking for spaces....
...And hard work can reap material rewards: Jerónimo the newspaper vendor has saved enough to build a house and a mini-mart....
...The location, still awaiting planning approval, will be just two miles from a recently opened Tesco Fresh & Easy store in the neighbouring city of Vista....
...According to the Department of Transport, an average of 11m trips of 100 miles or more are made each day over a six-day travel window in late November....
...This week, Ms Rogers took her 10-year-old Ford Escort to her local Wal-Mart to fill a prescription using the retailer’s $4-a-month generic pharmacy programme....
...Von’s, Safeway’s subsidiary in southern California, this week opened a 15,000 sq ft store called The Market in Long Beach, on a site six miles from one of Tesco’s planned new 10,000 sq ft stores....
...The retailer has secured leases on a handful of properties around Phoenix, some of them only a mile from locations where Tesco is setting up its 10,000 sq ft discount grocery stores....
...FT: You were brought up about 70 miles from Bentonville. Do you think the next Wal-Mart CEO will be from the Ozarks?...
...Yet Port St Lucie has remained true to its modest roots, more Wal-Mart than Valentino....
...Wal-Mart is developing two of the 42,000 sq ft grocery stores in the Coachella Valley, a fast-growing irrigated desert valley about 100 miles east of Los Angeles that includes the city of Palm Springs....
...We arrived at dusk on a Friday to find that somebody had paved paradise and put up a Wal-Mart parking lot....
...sq ft Wal-Mart in order to buy some rocket salad, a bottle of wine and a bit of chicken....
...More than half of all Americans live within five miles of a Wal-Mart store, less than a ten-minute drive away. Ninety percent of Americans live within fifteen miles of a Wal-Mart....
...He and his family will live in the governor’s mansion in sleepy Albany, 160 miles from Manhattan, where he grew up....
...Phoenix has already attracted Wal-Mart. The retailer opened its first Supercenter in the area about four years ago, and it now has 10 stores....
...The area has a greater density of Wal-Marts than most areas of the US – with 20 locations in a 22 mile radius of Orlando’s centre....
...Given the cost of a tour to the top of Mount Everest (between $10,000 and $40,000, according to the Los Angeles Times), it is safe to assume that no one collecting unemployment insurance was among the 10...
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