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Walmart Replaces Ex-Clinton Adviser With Ex-Bush Adviser

2013-05-22T17:29:46Z

NEW YORK -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. named Dan Bartlett, most recently president and CEO of the U.S. arm of global business advisory firm Hill & Knowlton ...

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Mike Berman: The Case for Business Lifecycle Management Is Found in the Numbers

2013-05-21T14:33:39Z

A business is as much a living organism as a person. We equate growth and change as natural, as well as necessary, stages in one's lifecycle.

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White Father Allegedly Suspected Of Kidnapping Biracial Daughters

2013-05-21T11:10:20Z

A Virginia couple was shocked to find a police officer in front of their home when they returned from running errands, but they were even more surpris...

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Grant Stern: The Devil in Walmart's Midtown Miami Plan, Its Details - Part 1

2013-05-20T17:02:25Z

If Walmart builds its Midtown Miami location as it is designed today, the potential for pedestrian injury could be high. The plan is riddled with design flaws and areas that don't meet zoning code.

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Walmart Slammed For Handling Of Bribery Case

2013-05-20T15:12:22Z

WILMINGTON, Del. -- A judge in Delaware ordered attorneys for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to turn over more information to shareholders seeking records on ho...

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Susan Buchanan: Jackson Avenue Heats Up Near The Port Of New Orleans

2013-05-19T13:02:22Z

(This article is published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the May 20, 2013 edition.)

New Orleans resident Barbara Risin has lived in the first block ...

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Jonathan Valania: The Corporations Have Won: Comcast, SCOTUS and the End of Class Actions

2013-05-17T12:34:53Z

A study recently found that the Roberts Court is the most business-friendly of any court in at least the last 65 years. More alarmingly, the top two justices most likely to vote in favor of big business -- out of all justices since 1946 -- are Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.

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LOOK: Walmart Refused To Print This Photo

2013-05-16T15:03:35Z

The latest in a dishearteningly regular series of breastfeeding controversies appears to have come to a positive resolution.

This time, the setting...

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Walmart Profits Suffer

2013-05-16T07:49:33Z

(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc's quarterly profit just missed Wall Street expectations on Thursday, with sales down 1.4 percent at its Walmart U.S. ...

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Walmart Goes Its Own Way

2013-05-14T19:17:59Z

Walmart announced Tuesday that it plans to develop its own safety program to address dangerous working conditions in factories in Bangladesh, where th...

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Report: Walmart Agrees To Big Change In Bangladesh

2013-05-14T16:13:44Z

Walmart has decided to improve its inspection standards at Bangladesh factories, according to a Bloomberg News tweet. The retail giant had faced press...

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Gap, Walmart Decline To Endorse Bangladesh Safety Accord

2013-05-14T07:39:55Z

* H&M, Inditex sign Bangladesh reform accord

* Gap wants changes in how disputes are resolved in court

* Wal-Mart asks Bangladesh government to ...

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Big Retailers Vow To Improve Factory Safety

2013-05-13T15:20:16Z

NEW YORK -- Four of the world's biggest retailers agreed to sign a pact to improve safety at garment factories in Bangladesh nearly three weeks after ...

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Walmart Accuses Labor Groups Of 'Disorderly' Trespassing

2013-05-13T13:04:57Z

Walmart is accusing two labor organizations of "disorderly conduct" during a protest at a Los Angeles-area Walmart last year that helped set off a cha...

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Grant Stern: Walmart Continues to Do the Same Thing and Expect Different Results in Midtown Miami Plan

2013-05-13T12:36:29Z

Walmart's plan has not complied since conception, nor at any time of submission -- because it is basically the same request, only repeated, and repeated again.

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H&M Makes Big Move On Factory Safety

2013-05-13T09:57:46Z

Fast-fashion retailer H&M has agreed to sign onto a binding accord to improve working conditions in Bangladesh garment factories, a move that labor ad...

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Boehner Accidentally Proves That The Budget Deficit Really Isn't A Problem

2013-05-09T12:07:14Z

BLOOMBERG VIEW:

This week, in an interview with Bloomberg Television, House Speaker John Boehner warned that the U.S. government must balance its b...

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Nash Riggins: Walmart Is Above Selling Candy Cigarettes -- So Why Does It Sell Children's Firearms?

2013-05-07T14:26:49Z

Perhaps the next time America's biggest retailer campaigns to ban the sale of certain products in order to keep kids safe, it should look to its own sporting goods section.

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The Top Spot On The Fortune 500 Is....

2013-05-06T09:59:20Z

Fortune:

Walmart retook the top spot, Berkshire Hathaway made the top five and Apple grew enormously.

Here are the top 10 companies on the For...

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The Most Pro-Business Supreme Court Since World War II

2013-05-04T21:38:58Z

NOT long after 10 a.m. on March 27, a restless audience waited for the Supreme Court to hear arguments in the second of two historic cases involving s...

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Walmart Weighs In On Bangladesh

2013-05-02T13:59:40Z

After the catastrophic collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building in Savar, Bangladesh, last week, Walmart is making assurances that it's tak...

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Retailers' Pledges On Garment Worker Safety Ring Hollow

2013-05-01T16:44:05Z

The climbing death toll in the wake of a massive building collapse in Bangladesh has put increasing pressure on Western retailers to commit themselves...

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Stacy Mitchell: On Climate, What Walmart Says vs. What It Does

2013-05-01T05:07:38Z

A closer examination of what Walmart is and isn't doing reveals a company that in fact lags its peers on renewable energy and is contributing a large and growing volume of climate change pollution to the atmosphere.

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Max Levitte: Portrait of a Walmart With You as the Subject

2013-04-30T18:22:24Z

Walmart and high-priced art aren't often mentioned in the same sentence. But artist Brendan O'Connell turns the discount shopping experience into upmarket culture.

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Bill Simon: Hire a Veteran: It's the Best Business Decision You'll Ever Make

2013-04-30T17:49:13Z

Every company in America has benefited from the service and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform. Now, the private sector needs to step up for our heroes, just as they have stood for us.

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