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Cpsc, gencorp Inc. Announce Recall Of Toy Xylophones Sold At Dollar or Cpsc, Dolgner Inc. Announce Recall Of Toy Xylophones Sold At Dollar ?
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Dollar Tree Stores Inc
Dollar Tree Stores, Inc. 500 Volvo ParkwayChesapeake, Virginia 23320U.S.A.(757) 321-5000Fax: (757) 321-5292 Public CompanyIncorporated: 1986 as Only One Dollar, Inc.Employees: 11,000Sales: $635.5 million (1997)Stock Exchanges: NASDAQSICs: 5331 Variety Stores Dollar Tree Stores, Inc. is the... Read more |
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Sand dollars
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Frisbee
Frisbee Background Nearly 300 million frisbees have been sold since their introduction 40 years ago, for both organized sports and recreational play. According to Mattel, 90% of Americans have played with this flying toy at one time or another, translating to 15 million... Read more |
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Market share
Market Share Firms are always concerned with the size of the potential market for their products or services and the proportion of that market they actually reach—often referred to as a company's market share. Market share is the percentage of the total market (or industry) sales made by one... Read more |
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Dollar Sign
DOLLAR SIGN DOLLAR SIGN. Popular belief often ascribes the origin of the dollar sign ($) to a mark on government mail-bags standing for U.S., or Uncle Sam. Another common story claims that the symbol represents the pillars of Hercules on the Spanish dollar. A third explanation for its origin... Read more |
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DNA cloning
DNA Synthesis Background Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) synthesis is a process by which copies of nucleic acid strands are made. In nature, DNA synthesis takes place in cells by a mechanism known as DNA replication. Using genetic engineering and enzyme chemistry, scientists... Read more |
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Superstores
HALPIN, JAMES James F. Halpin (1951–) led computer superstore CompUSA, Inc. out of the financial troubles it found itself in at the beginning of the 1990s. After a period of dramatic growth during the 1980s, CompUSA began to lag in the marketplace. The multi-billion dollar retailer known as... Read more |
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Exchange Rate
EXCHANGE RATE The price of one country's currency described in terms of another country's currency is known as the foreign exchange rate. The rate is a mechanism used to convert the value of one country's currency into the currency of another. The rate is expressed in terms of the currencies of... Read more |
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Battle of Dollar
Dollar, battle of, c.875. The battle, east of Alloa, Scotland, was a crushing defeat for Constantine I of Alba by the Norsemen, led by Halfdan of York. The whole northern part of Scotland was conceded to the invaders. Though the chronology is very doubtful, the reality of serious warfare is clear.... Read more |
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Pieces of Eight
PIECES OF EIGHT PIECES OF EIGHT, Spanish silver coins of eight reals (eight bits), first authorized in 1497. Also known as pesos and Spanish dollars, they were minted in enormous quantities and soon became recognized as a reliable medium of exchange in the European colonies of North America.... Read more |
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CPSC, Dolgencorp Inc. announce recall of toy xylophones sold at Dollar...
...CPSC, Dolgencorp Inc. announce recall of toy xylophones sold at Dollar General Stores...Commission (CPSC), Dolgencorp ... |