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Walmart and class-action lawsuits: A Supreme Court ruling worth checking out

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Jun. 20 (Opinion) - Monday’s Supreme Court decision in Dukes v Walmart (PDF) looks tailor-made to worry those who think the court has become too business-friendly. On one side was a mammoth corporation, little loved on the left. On the other, 1.5m women (personified in the case by one Walmart greeter, Betty Dukes, pictured above) suing Walmart for alleged discrimination in pay and promotion. The court sent them home unhappy, ruling unanimously against them on one procedural question and 5-4 on the legal heart of the matter.

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The Wal-Mart Decade

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Jan. 28 (Opinion) - European productivity grew faster than the US until the 1990s, mainly reflecting catchup; but America moved ahead in the late 1990s; the data suggest that the differential has leveled out since, so this may have been a one-time bulge.

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Op-Ed Columnist: The Broken Society

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:55:24 -0700

New York Times - Mar. 19 (Opinion) - The United States is becoming a broken society. The public has contempt for the political class. Public debt is piling up at an astonishing and unrelenting pace. Middle-class wages have lagged. Unemployment will remain high. It will take years to

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Op-Ed Columnist: The Wal-Mart Hippies

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By David Brooks - Mar. 05 (Opinion) - The Tea Party’s raging against the machine echoes an older radicalism from the opposite end of the political spectrum.

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Lead, Follow or Move Aside

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:55:16 -0700

New York Times - By Thomas L. Friedman - Sep. 26 (Opinion) - The "Wal-Mart environmental moment" starts with the C.E.O. adopting a green branding strategy as a purely defensive, public relations, marketing move. Then an accident happens -- someone in the shipping department takes it seriously and comes up with a new way to package the latest product and saves $100,000. This gets the attention of the C.E.O., who turns to his P.R. adviser and says, "Well, isn't that interesting? Get me a sustainability expert. Let's do this some more."

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