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...cases of products, hoping to interest Wal-Mart buyers in their toothpaste, panty hose, toasters and hundreds of other products. Wal-Mart buyers are notoriously tough bargainers, so sales representatives prepare their pitches carefully. Wal-Mart has plenty of room to grow -- shoppers in 15 states, mostly in the Northeast, have yet to see one store. The chain got started in 1962 much the way Sears did decades earlier, by targeting far-flung small towns and underserved rural areas. Stocking everything from cosmetics and record albums to shirts and lawn furniture, Wal-Mart developed a loyal core of customers devoted...
...radio so he can quickly alert his family of government warnings. Others take a stoic view. "I'm not frightened anymore. Once I get the mask on, I spend the rest of the time in our sealed room playing Nintendo," says Yoni Radzinski, 10, of Herzliya, a town just northeast of Tel Aviv. "By and large, Israeli kids are coping very well," says psychologist Robert Asch of the Ministry of Education. He predicts that tensions and boredom, a growing problem, will ease still further once children begin returning to school. But a residue of fear and bad dreams is likely...
...Iraqi tanks and troops smashed into Saudi Arabia's northeast corner early yesterday and were beaten back in "hellacious" fighting by allied forces. Twelve U.S. Marines were reported killed in the heaviest combat of the two-week-old war. Allied losses were described as light, Iraqi casualties as heavy...
...missiles glistened beneath its wings. Not far away, in the Persian Gulf, sailors on the battleship Wisconsin ran through training drills with their 32 Tomahawk cruise missiles, each capable of hitting targets 700 miles away with a 1,000-lb. conventional warhead. At a desolate desert site in northeast Saudi Arabia, tanks of the U.S. 1st Marine Division blazed away in live-fire exercises. In the last nerve-racking hours before "K-day" -- the U.N.'s Jan. 15 deadline for Iraq to get out of Kuwait -- U.S. troops were understandably edgy. But they had little doubt that they were capable...
Banking's woes are spreading beyond the Northeast. In California, where banks are generally suffering less than in other regions, Security Pacific Corp. last month projected a loss of at least $320 million for the fourth quarter. More than half the bank's problems stemmed from loans outside California, particularly to builders in Arizona. Experts are worried that a further downturn in California's slumping real estate market could cause a flood of red ink at the state's other big banks...