Word: basic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worked superbly. Wal-Mart earned $4.4 billion last year on sales of $139 billion. It serves 90 million to 100 million customers each week. So while Wal-Mart is a conservative company born of the rural South, it hasn't let that get in the way of some basic considerations of commerce. Years ago, church leaders were unhappy, and unavailing, when the company began to open its stores on Sundays. The customers, not any other authority, would be obeyed...
...giant canoe across from downtown Columbus. Inside its purposely skewed interior walls (variously aligned to three different versions of north: true, magnetic and the local street grid's) are seven thematic areas called Learning Worlds. Within each, visitors are free to immerse themselves in scientific concepts that range from basic physics to advanced medicine. "One of the problems with all science centers is the 'Ping-Pong-ball effect,'" says Joseph Wisne, COSI's vice president for design and production. "Visitors literally bounce from one interactive device to the next, pushing buttons to see what things do, as opposed to using...
...Influenced by German artist Kthe Kollwitz (1867 - 1945), Zhang's films capture struggle and pain without victimizing the subject. Zhang reduces life to its most basic elements-the individual and the interpersonal--and makes moments timeless. Unlike China's more commercial directors such as Feng Xiaogang, Zhang is not trying to play to a popular trope but to create a work of art that "could be seen 500 years ago or 500 years in the future and still be relevant...
...there a basic Sameer under all those? I think the answer is yes," he concludes...
Fort Jackson is in a sort of paralysis. The specialist who met our Basic Training class at Columbia Airport thought we might be "processed" - the purpose of our current limbo at the Arms Reception Battalion - in three to five days, before moving on to the real thing, boot camp. That now seems a vain hope, and it seems unlikely we will have completed Basic by Christmas. I talk to two privates at dinner chow who've been here for three weeks since processing; they're still waiting to move on.?The current?in-the-wind estimate for the 13th Platoon...