"Wal-Martization" is helping to force branded-goods makers to come up with novel products to maintain pricing ( see also our book excerpt, p. 26).

FORBES: Scribblers and Society

That clock continues to idiotically click down, even as the rankings are already live on the U.S. News site (they appear to have gone up at 10 p.m.) and two days after the rankings have been leaked on a number of websites including ours.

FORBES: U.S. News & World Report rankings are out (though you wouldn't know it from their countdown clock)

Knowing we'd be turning our backs on civilization, we first visited Cape Lodge near the Margaret River (see box, p. 172) to soak up as much five-star nourishment as we could.

FORBES: Magazine Article

See also, AGSCAM Redux: Will CCC Be Allowed to Waste More Taxpayer Dollars Propping Up Tyranny? (No. 91-P 32, 23 April 1991).

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